[MPlayer-users] Mencoder 2pass bitrate control

[Ari Huttunen]

Corey Hickey wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> jzaw wrote:
> 
>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>
>> On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 20:58 Europe/London, D Richard Felker 
>> III wrote:
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>>> Also, xvid is not recommended. lavc is faster and gives better
>>> quality.
>>
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>> is this generally recognised or is the jury still out on this one?
>> I thought there was still some discussion about quality?
> 
> 
> It's generally recognized as true around here because nobody has been
> able to prove us wrong. A while ago I tried a sample encode with xvid
> 1.0 beta 2, and was impressed with the results; when I compared it to
> lavc, I really couldn't decide which I liked better.
> 
> I'd like to do some psnr tests of xvid, but it doesn't work with xvid
> 1.0:
> 
> Option xvidencopts: Unknown suboption psnr
> 
> libmpcodecs/ve_xvid4.c has no mention of psnr...

It's written "stats".

Ari