[MEncoder-users] Scaling quality

[Andrew Udvare]

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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