[MEncoder-users] Remove gmc

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:14:39AM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 01:43, Danilo Berardi wrote:
> >
> > 1) mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -lameopts preset=standard:fast -xvidencopts 
> > pass=1:vhq=4:autoaspect:cartoon:nogmc -vf pp=h1/v1/al/dr/tn,hqdn3d -o 
> > original.avi final.avi
> 
> pp=al and pp=tn are probably not very wise, especially tn when you've got hqdn3d.

pp=tn should never be used. IT _creates_ new blocking artifacts. :)
pp=al is also bad.

> > 2) mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -lameopts preset=medium:fast -xvidencopts 
> > pass=2:bitrate=-20000:vhq=4:autoaspect:cartoon:nogmc  -o  original.avi 
> > final.avi
> 
> However in second pass you don't use any filter at all, so all the filter during first pass
> only serves to slow it down, and utterly confuse rate control, probably giving you terrible
> final results, not to mention that none of those filters will be used for the final pass.
> 
> How long is the video? Do you really want ~200megabytes for the video size? How
> large is the original?

... I don't think he knows what he wants..

Rich