[MEncoder-users] broken mencoder options (was: High quality encoding of anime and broken mencoder options)

[RC]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:34:44 -0300
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here at gmail.com> wrote:

> By the way, something I like in the Theora codec is that it
> prefers to preserve fine detail than to eliminate blocking - or at
> least it behaved like this in the last video I tested. Since I care
> more about detail than about about blockiness, I like the Theora
> approach.

I suggest you take a closer look, because that's not what Theora/VP3
does at all.  It can't preserve fine detail no matter what, it has a
tendency to discolor, and it has a built-in deblocking filter (which
does a poor job).