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Why multipass is better in a nutshell. Taken from Rich's encoding guide.

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<para>
  There are three approaches to encoding the video: constant bitrate
  (CBR), constant quantizer, and multipass (ABR, or average bitrate).
</para>

<note><title>Note:</title>
<para>
  Most codecs which support ABR encode only support two pass encode

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</para>

<para>
  There are three approaches to encoding the video: constant bitrate
  (CBR), constant quantizer, and multipass (ABR, or average bitrate).
</para>

<para>
  The complexity (and thus the number of bits) required to compress the
  frames of a movie can vary greatly from one scene to another.
  Modern video encoders can adjust to these needs as they go and vary
  the bitrate.
  However, in simple modes such CBR, they cannot exceed the requested
  average bitrate for long stretches of time, because they do not know
  the bitrate needs of future scenes.
  Wiser modes, such as multipass encode can take into account the
  statistics from previous passes, which fixes the problem mentioned
  above.
</para>

<note><title>Note:</title>
<para>
  Most codecs which support ABR encode only support two pass encode