[MEncoder-users] Mencoder vs. hardware based devices...

[Brian Keener]

RC wrote:

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>Why's that?  Are you using some lossless codec like Huffyuv for the
>initial capture?  Using either lavc's mpeg2 or mpeg4 codec with
>keyint=1 will give you very fast encoding, and using far less space
>than any lossless codec.  Also use something like "vqscale=2" (as
>opposed to using "vbitrate=") for live captures.
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I'd expect that re-encoding mpeg2 into mpeg2 would merely compound the 
artifacting/etc. that I'd end up with.

I'm not sure what the keyint:1 would change, though.

Brian K