[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] encoder for adobe's flash ScreenVideo2 codec

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

> Unfortunately, the rate distortion method do not solve the problem of
> finding the optimal block size. How much do quality/bitrate depend on it?

Sure it does.  You can use skip-RD to make a bitrate/quality
distortion tradeoff for any block size, and you can just try a whole
set of block sizes (or use a greedy search) to find the optimal block
size.

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