[MEncoder-users] How important are B-frames?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:13:07PM +1000, Sylvester wrote:
> > On May 11, 2012 1:02 AM, "Janos Szamosfalvi" <szamosj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > B-frames are most useful when there's little movement,
> > so you may want to repeat the test with a video that
> > doesn't have lots of movement if you want to know the
> > effect of B-frames on file size.
> >
> > Gabri Nurtinaz Shally wrote:
> >
> > especially cartoon or anime.
> >
> > btw, from reported frame, there is difference. take a look at QP parameter
> > on I-frame. when the bframes set to 3, the QP value were 31, but it is
> > reduced to 32 when bframes set to 0. from this information, imo, bframes
> > save bits so that it can be used to improve quality of I-frames.
> 
> Thanks for all your input.  Perhaps I better start using FFmpeg.  A
> lot of my encodes use x264 AVC in FLVs to be played via an embedded
> Flash player in HTML.  Also, I notice from the programmers of MEncoder
> here in the mailing list, stating that it has "not been maintained for
> years".  When was the month and year it stopped please?  I'm just
> curious.

I don't remember the time someone was actively working on it.
So probably something like more than 6 years ago.
It doesn't really mean issues with it will certainly not be fixed,
but you should expect that issues it has might never be fixed any longer.