Hi all, I was trying to add a complete dual pass support (DivX, xVid, RealMagic) to the M&M program (DVD2AVI evolution) but I've been stuck in some points. 1) there is a way (after I've called the ICCompressorChose) to understand if the selected plugin is the first step of a dual pass ? 1a) for video 1b) for audio 2) which is the correct sequence i have to do to create an avi with a dual pass ? for single pass is: ICCompressorChoose AVIFileOpen AVIFileCreateStream AVIMakeCompressedStream AVIStreamSetFormat AVIStreamWrite AVIStreamClose ICSeqCompressFrameEnd ICCompressorFree 2a) how do I start the second pass ? 2b) with which filename ? 3) I have to process again the whole file ? this means I have to provide again all the frames to the compressor to encode it? 4) which structures i have to keep in memory to reinit the compresso for second pass ? Thanks in advance, M&M

You should look to this thread "Command Line Compressor" Source are included.

Toff, thanks for the link, I'll study them... (it works only on video or on audio too ??) from a first view they can help me on 2-3-4 while I still do not know how to work on question 1 (you have the -2 parameter, you do not get it from the compressor properties) another doubt I have is: is it possible to have sigle pass for audio and dual pass for video? or vice versa ? how do you handle it? M&M