[MPlayer-users] Stupid flames

[Jeff Clagg]

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:54:09PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Saturday 06 May 2006 22:26, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> 
> > I haven't tried in the last 5 months or so, but more than once I have
> > preferred the results of xvid over x264 at the same bitrate.
> 
> Most files with h264 I've encountered in the wild have amused me.
> Re-encoding with lavc mpeg4, vqscale=1:mbd=2:tv4mv:trell has
> sometimes given me smaller (!) file, and most often only slightly
> larger.. Can't say I noticed any artefacts... and the version transcoded
> to mpeg4 even played in realtime :)

I've probably whined about this here before, but this is especially true
of the HD trailers hosted in Apple's movie trailer collection. They're
all a huge waste of space and CPU time.