[MPlayer-users] Is it possible to specify colour depth ofMPEG-IIfiles using

[Alexander Strange]

On Apr 17, 2006, at 7:41 PM, John Brown wrote:
>
> Anyway, it might suit me to convert to 16-bit colour if I can. My  
> goal is to put Japanese cartoons on DVD. I recently put 23 episodes  
> (average length 23 min 5 sec = 8 h4 50 min total) with vbitrate =  
> 1161 and abitrate = 96 on a 4.7 GB DVD. The target audience does  
> not really care, but I would prefer dithered colours if it meant  
> less blocking.

Dithering will make compression worse. Use 'nr' in lavc or the hqdn3d  
filter if you want to remove some detail.

> Does the MPEG-II standard compel me to use 24-bit colour? If not,  
> how would I choose the colour depth with MEncoder?

It doesn't use RGB at all, but it does use 8 bits-per-channel YUV.