[MEncoder-users] Encoding interlaced content: what am I doing wrong?

[Martijn van Beurden]

>
> In short, going from one codec to another will lose more quality than
> not, and the only benefit to newer codecs like x264 is in squeezing
> slightly higher quality out of slightly smaller files, at the expense of
> lots of CPU time.  At high bitrates, H.264 has nothing special to offer.

But going from MPEG-2 to MPEG-2 is losing quality too, not? Going in two 
steps is AFAIK the only way to use an EDL. And I thought because x.264 
has the possibility to encode on quality instead of bitrate (I'm using 
--crf 15) that would result in big but quite good files.