[MEncoder-users] encoding quality problem

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:12:12AM +0100, simone marchi wrote:
> > obviously you're just using a bitrate that's too low. use very high
> > bitrate and it will look fine.
> 
> Hi rich,
> I think this is not the problem because I use not very low bitrate
> (more or less 1000 kbit, but the problem persists when I use more
> high bitrate also).

1000 kbit is very crappy bitrate for mpeg1. try 8000 and you'll see
that the postprocessed file looks a lot better.

> I'm not sure but I think that spp (or pp) is only output filter
> (i.e. spp doesn't not affect the quality during encoding video... :( ).

nope, this is definitely false.

> ps: The mpeg file is encoded as VCD standard.

vcd standard sucks; you won't get nice-looking video with it. be happy
with whatever you can do that looks tolerable...

rich