[MEncoder-users] Happy with encoding results but wish better understanding

[Grozdan]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:50 AM, RC <cooleyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:11:14 +0200
> Grozdan <neutrino8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Small correction, SATD is 2, not 3 which is DCT. So it'll be
>> cmp=2:subcmp=2
>
> SATD will make the video very blocky.  It works very well with animation
> though.

Funny, I've never seen blocks with SATD on live footage (I don't
encode anime). That said, the "best" one is RD, but it's pretty slow

>
> DCT is the most common method, but it results in colorful blocks.
>
> SAD, which is the default with libavcodec, doesn't have the problems of
> the above two, and happens to be a couple orders of magnitude
> faster than either of them...
>
>
> --
> Ha. I'm the idiot.
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