[MEncoder-users] RGB => YV12 conversion

[Jan Knutar]

On Wednesday 21 September 2005 16:37, Julien Lancien wrote:
> In fact, I was asking the question because I was wondering if there
> was any quality impact of the colorspace when compressing in MPEG4.
> I'm almost sure that this is not the case, but I was thinking
> something like : 1000 kbits/s in YV12 is like 2000 kbits/s in RGB24.
> 
> So is there any influence of the colorspace ?

It always gets converted to YV12 for MPEG4 anyway.