[MPlayer-users] lavc vs. xvid (and improving lavc quality)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:06:35PM -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 20:03 -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > I never use postproc and I never see blocks. BTW perhaps you're
> > (stupidly) using vqscale= rather than bitrate/2pass encoding.
> 
> Why would a vqscale=2 encode be worse in quality than a 2-pass encode
> (with the default vqmin)?

If there are no bugs, it won't be worse. But it will waste a lot of
space. Except for certain scenes, q=2 really isn't much better than 3
or 4.

> > quality, since none of us who encode the right way (2pass) are
> > noticing any problem whatsoever...
> 
> I do.

That's why I suspect something's wrong...

Rich