[MEncoder-users] Re: library for -of ogg

[Phil Ehrens]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > 
> > superior to what?
> 
> Exactly. VP6 is an inferior codec.
> 
> > if you want to use flash (which most of the web does)
> 
> Show me the stats. There's nothing preventing you from putting an AVI or
> QuickTime or Matroska file on the web, which would allow you to use other
> codecs. There are players for these file formats for every platform, as
> opposed to Flash.
> 
> > it is far and away the superior choice!  (the only other choice is
> > sorenson spark.)
> 
> Only if you insist on using Flash as container.

Yeah... Basically, the biggest influence on quality
is going to be the talent of the person doing the
encode. Why limit your audience? Think of all the
poor Linux geeks who will visit your porn site and
then won't be able to get off because you used a
flash container... and probably ran a brain-dead
detection routine that forced up a "download the
uber plugin now" routine as well...