[MEncoder-users] Need Mencoder Expert for Hire

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 07:59:13AM +0200, Reimar Doeffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 01:57:30PM -0700, Alan Cooper wrote:
> > 2) Fingerprint the video using mplayer/mencoder to find what type of mess of
> > a video we are dealing with
> > 3) Using that information build an mencoder command line with the best video
> > filters for that type of media
> 
> Note that I think you might get better reliability by using different
> filter chain and testing which one gives best output instead of trying
> to detect the exact type of video.

Measuring the "best output" after potentially-wrong filterring is MUCH
HARDER than evaluating the original video, IMO. That's why I get mad
whenever someone sends me a bug report about the ivtc filters and only
includes the bad encode they made as opposed to the source material.

Rich