[MPlayer-users] PSNR tests: mbd=2, mv0, trell, and cbp (and...

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:33:45AM -0700, rcooley wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:12:07 +0300 (EEST)
> Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat at ee.oulu.fi> wrote:
> 
> >> just might do better to use MPEG1 (which disregards very fine
> >> details) rather than MPEG4 (which uses extra bits to preserve the
> >> details of the analog artifacts :-) ).
> 
> > Huh? Are you saying MPEG-1 gives better quality than MPEG-4?!
> 
> "Quality" is rather vague.  I meant exactly what I said above.  It would
> probably be much faster for you to just try using it once, rather than
> explaining all of it's pros and cons. 

I'm VERY skeptical of this advice... All I've ever seen MPEG1 do (at
bitrates where the MPEG4 looks subperfect) is spew out horrible
blocking artifacts...

Rich