[MPlayer-dev-eng] DivX5 & VBR encoding

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tuesday 10 September 2002 17:07, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:24:37AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Tuesday 10 September 2002 05:11, Kim Minh Kaplan wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > I'd hate dropping support for DivX.  That's what I use regularly.
> > > Last time I checked XviD & lavc it gave worse results than what I get
> > > with DivX.  True I didn't tune much of the options, but for a quick &
> > > easy encode at least, DivX is not bad at all.
> >
> > hmm, the defaults for lavc encoding should be better, now (after the rc
> > rewrite)
>
> What about the new default rate control equation? Is it intended to be
> a good one to use, or just a simple default that should be overridden?
its simple and good :)
but there certainly are better choices, but if i did know a well tested better 
choice then i would make it default ...

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Michael