[MEncoder-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: Tutorial?

[Phil Ehrens]

Dieter wrote:
> > It is not the domain of the MPlayer documentation (at least not the man
> > page) to explain such basic ideas in more than the most general of
> > terms, if indeed at all. If people really don't understand these things
> > from the information which *is* provided, then they need to educate
> > themselves elsewhere before they can make meaningful use of *any* video
> > encoder - not just MEncoder.
> 
> One shouldn't need to be a world-class video guru to record and play
> back a video.  It wasn't necessary with VCRs and it shouldn't be
> necessary with DVRs.

VCR's recorded from one source and played back in a single format to a
single sink. Analog signals are also much less liable to incidental
damage since they do not rely on historical information. There are
myriad sources, hundreds of container/codec combinations, and unpredictable
sources of damage to the stream which must be considered when transcoding
video.