[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: [MEncoder-users] new doom9 codec comparission

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

1 week has passed and noone volunteers, so ffmpeg/mencoder wont be included
in the next doom9 comparission i guess

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:37:05AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> doom9 is planning to do a new codec comparission, and they are asking me
> to provide them with 2pass settings (lavc mpeg4 & lavc snow) for the 
> "qualification round" against xvid 1.03 with the matrix as movie
> they need a single set of options not a mix of possible good ones from
> which they would have to select, thats also why they refuse to ask here,
> they are also askng which binary of mencoder they should use
> iam not forwarding their mail as it was in german ...
> 
> so we need a volunteer who has some experience with encoding, can
> provide them with all that and furthermore could double check that
> nothing silly goes wrong like using a player with postprocessing disabled
> for viewing the mencoder encoded video while one with pp enabled is used
> in the other cases
> 
> if you want to volunteer just reply to the list ...
> if you dont do that, then shut up and dont complain about what doom9 will
> say about libav*/mencoder
> 
> in the unlikely case that we end up with multiple volunteers who cant agree
> then ill decide who is the official one they should listen to
> i belive this should solve the issue doom9 had with asking here
> 
> 
> PS: also dont forget to ask if the test is just quality wise or speed wise too

the test will be done on a dual core CPU, goal is best possible quality at 
reasonable speed, last time the worst result was 17.5 fps

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Michael