[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Snow encoding draft

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 12:45:00AM +0200, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
> 
> Snow is an experimental wavelet-based codec made by the ffmpeg developers,

FFmpeg

> As such, you will need to add vstrict=-1 to you command line to let
> MPlayer allow an encode.

For this reason, MEncoder will not encode without 'vstrict=-1' on the
command line.

>    quality in mpeg4.

MPEG-4

>    Experience show that SSD is the best most of the time, while SAD is

shows

>    so just leave it off. (it does, however, help mpeg4.)

MPEG-4

>    This setting always helps compressibility, but costs some cpu time

CPU

>    The current MB decision algorithm doesn't make very good use of this:
>    it improves quality, but also increases bitrate.

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Looks good otherwise.  I'd say commit it, so people can start playing
around with snow.

Diego