[MEncoder-users] x264 lossless, or is it?

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:55:37AM +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> On 12/6/05, Matthias Wieser <mwieser at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 19:02 schrieb n0dalus:
> >
> > > I don't know if it changes anything, but -vo png:z=9 is highly
> > > compressed. You should be using png:z=0.
> >
> > PNG *is* lossless, so it does not matter if you use z=9 or z=1 or z=0.
> >
> >      Matthias
> >
> 
> PNG is not necessarily lossless. Some programs reduce the amount of
> colours in an image to improve compression.

This is idiotic and certainly not done by MPlayer, nor is it related
to PNG..

Rich