[MEncoder-users] Mencoder quality settings ...

[Moritz Barsnick]

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 02:35:04 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:

> > Not many such codecs come to mind, I think snow and hufyuv are
> > candidates.

> Umhh, why not many?

I was speaking of my mind ;-) and actually wasn't aware.

> A lot of lossy codecs may be tuned to fully lossless via some codec's
> options, e.g. qp=0 for x264 or vqscale=0 for any lavc codec. Or am I
> missing something? And do not forget about ffv1 and ljpeg 8-).

You're not missing anything, and I just didn't know. :-)

Now, is there a good comparison of nearly lossless bitrates on various
codecs? And a list of what the settings are? [*] This might be
interesting both for intermediate formats and for "close to original"
storage.

Thanks,
Moritz


[*] Also when considering some colorspace conversions a loss.