[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: Re: Re: [theora-dev] Theora encoding in FFmpeg

[Robert Swain]

Hey,

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> also it is _very_ important to use postprocessing on the decoder side for
> mpeg4 asp (theora and h.264 have their own "postprocessing" in loop filter
> build in) mplayer -vf spp=X or -vf pp is something you could try

Can the loop filter in theora be disabled? That's another option for comparison 
I suppose.

>> Compared against ffmpeg's "h264" (libx264), there was no
>> clear winner (part of the problem was that I couldn't get h264 to
> 
> the default options for x264 encoding with ffmpeg are VERY bad, there
> should be some recommanded command line parameters for ffmpeg-x264 
> somewhere i think (no i dont remember where ...)

I made some notes here:
http://rob.opendot.cl/index.php/useful-stuff/ffmpeg-x264-encoding-guide/

It and the interface could probably do with a little updating to encompass bime, 
mixed refs and anything else that was added.

Regards,
Rob