[MEncoder-users] new doom9 codec comparission (draft 1)

[Corey Hickey]

Matthias Wieser wrote:
>>>You're sure about unix-style command? Maybe something that can be
>>>executed under cmd.exe will be better? If they don't know/understand
>>>what ";" and "\" are, they'll become quite irritated at converting it
>>>to windows format.
>>
>>I'm pretty sure, that doom9 will understand these.
> 
> 
> I think 
> 
> for i in vpass=1:turbo vpass=2 ; do
> mencoder [...]$i
> done
> 
> is quite advanced syntax (for a normal Windows user). What's the delimiter 
> for "i"? Is it ":"," " or ";"? Each of those would result in different 
> mencoder commandlines if one would not know how the bash works.
> 
> Why not just two individual mencoder lines? This should be more easy to 
> understand:
> 
> mencoder matrix.vob [...]qpel:vpass=1:turbo -o del.avi
> mencoder matrix.vob [...]qpel:vpass=2 -o mpeg4.avi

Doom9 is actually the developer of MeGUI, a windows frontend to
mencoder. I don't think the syntax will be a problem, but just to be
sure I'll write it both ways. The main reason I want to keep the "for i
in" is to emphasize what is different between the two command lines.

-Corey