[MEncoder-users] Scaling quality

[Steven Miller]

Thanks much for the info. mencoder has been in my toolbox since day one and
I'll continue to use it. I'm not knocking the ffmpeg folks. They've made a
great contribution, the backbone of a lot of projects and a powerful tool
on it's own, but it's a shame to effort didn't go to mencoder. ffmpeg's
documentation doesn't even compare with the docs for mencoder. I've been on
the ffmpeg mailing list for sometime and the devs can be rather dismissive
with their "read the source" attitude. While I know C and can usually
muddle my way thru, the users who don't write code must feel pretty put out
with "read the source". I don't think I've ever seen that response with
mplayer/mencoder.

thanks again for your time.

Cheers,
Steve


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Andrew Udvare <audvare at gmail.com> wrote:

> Given that mencoder is not maintained, it is not really logical to stay
> using it. mplayer2 doesn't even come with it as far as I know now. Anything
> you can do in mencoder you can achieve now in ffmpeg as of 1.2.4 or so
> (especially the IVTC stuff).
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 30 October 2013 16:24, Grozdan <neutrino8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Steven Miller <srmj.ml at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I apologize for the delay. Could you please further explain "MEncoder
> is
> > > not an actively maintained application"?
> > >
> > > thanks much
> > >
> >
> > No one works on MEncoder anymore. It's kept around because there are
> still
> > people using it (like me :p)
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Steven Miller <srmj.ml <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > I understand that any rescaling takes a toll on
> > > > > quality. Is the quality hit harder on the 'x' or
> > > > > 'y' axis. I guess in other words, is it better to
> > > > > rescale on one than the other?
> > > >
> > > > I don't know.
> > > > There are different scaler algorithms available which
> > > > provide different quality (and speed), see the -sws
> > > > option in the manual.
> > > >
> > > > You do realize that MEncoder is not an actively
> > > > maintained application? FFmpeg contains the same
> > > > scaler (with the same algorithms) and is actively
> > > > maintained.
> > > >
> > > > Carl Eugen
> > > >
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