[MEncoder-users] Mencoder x264encopts options

[Grozdan]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:10 PM, James Hastings-Trew <jimht at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Christian Ebert wrote:
>>
>> * Alexander Bokovikov on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 17:48:26 +0500
>>
>>>
>>> On 23.01.2010, at 17:14, Nathan Shearer wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know how to use the x264 presets in mencoder?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why not to use FFMPEG instead?
>>>
>>
>> mencoder offers a lot more video filters.
>>
>
> For me, that's always the sticking point. Some things in mencoder are
> admittedly broken, and when up against a program that involves one of it's
> broken areas, the response is often to "use ffmpeg instead". But, mencoder's
> shining features really are the video filters and scaling filters. Maybe a
> dumb question - would it be easier to port mencoder's filtering and scaling
> to ffmpeg than to fix mencoder broken features?

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filters are one of the main reason why I stick to mencoder, despite it
being broken. Also, the fact that ffmpeg has such an ugly syntax in
the form of -option1 param1 +option2 param2 -option3 compared to
mencoder's simple option1:option2:option3 syntax, is another reason
too why I prefer it over ffmpeg.

As for porting filters, there are quite a lot of filters in mplayer so
I think a clean rewrite of mencoder will be easier (mencoder isn't
that big when you look at its code) but no one is interested in doing
this. ffmpeg has had a filter API for quite some time now, yet it only
has a few useless filters (with exception of deinterlacing). I always
wondered how it could be possible for such an encoder like ffmpeg,
which offers so much wrt codecs/encoding and is used by so many people
(even by major companies), that it totally lacks virtually any decent
video filters. If I was maintainer of ffmpeg, I would be in total
shame but that's just me

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