[MPlayer-dev-eng] help, uncompressable video stream

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wednesday 19 March 2003 00:46, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Is it impossible to compress this stream well using divx?  Are there
>
> DCT-based codecs (like mpegs, h263, divx) doesn't "like" contours.
> divx is even bad for cartoons, not talking about 'ascii art'.
u could try some blur (-ssf lgb= ...)

>
> > certain options I can use to get it a reasonable size?  Even with
> > preme=2:vme=1:vbitrate=4 I still get bitrates that are ridiculously
dont use vme=1 !!

btw, what exact commandline args, res, ... did u use?

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Michael