[MEncoder-users] Flashvideo for YouTube using mencoder

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:47:37PM +0100, Ben wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:10:27AM +0100, Ben wrote:
> >  > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:58 AM, RC <cooleyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > >  > keyint=148:
> >  > >
> >  > >  The larger the keyint, the better the quality (potentially).
> >  >
> >  > Hmm.. isn't the keyframe the one frame saved in maximum quality?
> >
> >  No, it's one frame saved independently of previous frames to
> >  facilitate seeking. If keyint is too large it reduces the number of
> >  possible seek destinations but always improves quality.
> 
> That's actually contradictory to reality. If I reduce the number of
> keyframes, the bitrate of the video lowers, meaning quality
> requirement is lower. I don't think it improves quality, ever.

Uh... I thought it was rather obvious that the question is quality _at a
fixed bitrate_.
Otherwise we'd all be using uncompressed video...