[MEncoder-users] change bpp

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:55:26PM +0100, Aleksandar Uzelac wrote:
> 
>   for some time now i'm trying to change color depth of mpeg2 video
>   while converting it to xvid. mencoder creates xvid file with
>   12bpp, but if i try to convert same mpeg2 video to divx (with
>   lavc) mencoder creates divx with 24bpp (and the difference is
>   significant).

No it does not. This 12/24 bpp crap in the header means absolutely
nothing. Ignore it. BTW it's a bug that divx labels it 24bpp. The
quality difference is presumably because you're using bad encoding
options.

Rich