[MEncoder-users] Experiences of video encoding

[Mathieu Monnier]

>  That surprises me: some tests I did last summer, which were a prelude
>  to these tests, showed that even with lavc, B-frames increase
>  quality.

It highly depends on the video content

>  Thanks, and thanks for your remarks: I will keep them safely for
>  future reference. But I do not think that this fine-tuning can be
>  enough for lavc to beat x264, therefore I will keep working on the
>  latter for now.

Don't ever expect to beat x264 with a mpeg4p2 codec, at least not if you 
only compare PSNR & SSIM.

Regards,

Mathieu