[MPlayer-users] wmv, rm, mov, vp6. Which is best?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:51:36PM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> Am Freitag, 26. März 2004 16:17 schrieb D Richard Felker III:
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:03:08PM +0100, Amadeus wrote:
> >
> > > Is it considered a fact, that xvid is better than libavcodec's mpeg4?
> >
> > No, the opposite.
> 
> URL to comparison: [.........................]

I could ask you the same question. Apparently no one wants to do a
comparison... See my other email too.

> > > > The better the documentation of the codec, the better the results.
> > > > Documentation for xvid and divx is good, documentation for lavc ist
> > > > mostly outdated.
> >
> > Which documentation is outdated?
> 
> encoding-tips.txt
> -----------------
> 
>       [For best quality] "NEVER leave out 'vhq'. Never ever."
> 
> Should read: Don't use "vhq", use "mbd=2" for good quality
> 
> Do you really use these days 
> 'vlelim=-4:vcelim=9:lumi_mask=0.05:dark_mask=0.01' for encoding of 
> non-animated movies?
> 
> Std.-Documentation
> ------------------
> 	'[...] use three-pass-encoding [...]'
> This mailinglist: "Don't use three-pass-encoding!"
> 
> And so on.
> 
> What I wanted to say: There is no recent guide that says beginners what 
> options they should use.

OK, point well taken.

Rich