[MEncoder-users] new doom9 codec comparission (submission)

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:06:59PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
> > I have a question regarding your snow commandline: is vqcomp really 
> > supported in Snow? Once upon a time when I added snow support to MeGUI, I 
> > asked around which parameters were supported and vqcomp wasn't amongst these 
> > options.
> 
> vqcomp is listed in DOCS/tech/snow.txt (in the mplayer source), so I
> thought it was supported. I used vqcomp=0.6 on the basis of liking it
> better on my mpeg-4 tests. I just tested a clip, however, and it had no
> effect. If Michael sees this on mencoder-users he'll probably tell you
> for sure.

vqcomp has nothing to do with the specific codec. It's a parameter to
the ratecontrol engine (ratecontrol.c). So it works for any (internal
lavc) codec with 2pass rate control.

Rich