[MEncoder-users] Scaling quality

[Scott W. Larson]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:14:18 +0100, Grozdan <neutrino8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
> we're almost 2014 and ffmpeg still can't read directly from discs. For
> God's sake, DVD is being phased out very slowly in favor of Blu-ray, but
> ffmpeg still can't handle DVDs, let alone Blu-rays

Additionally, the EDL code in mencoder is very simple and has been in 
mencoder for years. Since the request to put it into ffmpeg has been 
ignored so far, either something in their code makes it difficult 
(they've had trouble getting -ss to do accurate seeks) or there is no 
interest from the developers to implement this kind of feature at this 
point. 

The Changlogs show they've been busy porting mplayer codecs and adding 
other low level support. That's great but it doesn't sound like they're 
ready to add higher level features like EDL or reading from DVDs.