[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] CQMs in x264

[Robert Swain]

Hello.

On 7/12/05, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 7/12/05, Robert Swain <robert.swain at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have written a small patch to add a CQM option to x264 in MEncoder.
> 
> Nice! I was secretly hoping that someone would take care of this, and
> there you are! You almost read my mind! :-)

;)
 
> > Please find the patch attached. (You should be able to apply with 'patch -p0
> > < mplayer.x264.cqm.1.diff'.) I've added the above usage description to the
> > English man documentation.
> 
> This is a quite more advanced encoding setting. I think it also
> deserves further documentation in the XML doc (at least, show how a
> matrix is supposed to be formatted, and what are the separators: tabs,
> spaces, commas ?).

I was going to suggest we does as has been done in x264 and include an
example file taken from JM.

> > I know CQMs have been available to XviD in MEncoder for quite a while. Is
> > there any neat workaround anyone can think of to solve the reserved
> > character, ':'
> 
> I'm not sure to see what is the problem here.

The problem is Windows paths are given as "C:\path\to\mymatrix.cfg".
As this path contains ':' it causes problems because it thinks
"\path\to\mymatrix.cfg" is the next x264 option.


Robert