[MPlayer-users] Suggested Low Bitrate Encoding Options

[Alex Samad]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:14:21PM -0700, RC wrote:
> Images for a quick visual comparison and to better explain what I've
> been seeing.
> 
What are the command to take snap shot pictures like this ?

> FMP4: 
> http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd211/cooleyr/riddick6-600k-MPEG4-angel-b2-m2-lim.png
> 
> Xvid:
> http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd211/cooleyr/riddick6-600k-XVID-p2.png
> 
> VP3.2 (Sharp) (Theora looks much worse):
> http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd211/cooleyr/riddick6-600k-VP32-best-k600-aspect.png
> 
> x264:
> http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd211/cooleyr/riddick6-600k-x264.png
> 
> VP7 (Max Sharpness):
> http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd211/cooleyr/riddick6-600k-VP72-fast-aspect.png
> 
> Original: 
> http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd211/cooleyr/riddick6.vob.png
> 
> 
> > FMP4 with these options looks much, much better (sharper) than Xvid,
> > though with just slightly more artifacts...  I found it very sad that
> > Xvid quantizes out most of the stars, in a movie that takes place in
> > space.
> > 
> > Even with my best efforts, both codecs still get easily beaten at low
> > bitrates by (the rather old) VP3.2, which is then surpassed by x264.
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