[MPlayer-users] Encoding quality advices

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:38:02PM +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 14:52:11 +0100
> Haas Wernfried <w.haas at xover.htu.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> > renaming it to --quite-good-quality
> 
> 
> or, better still, just have no option at all, and make it the default,
> whilst also having the program print:
> 
> "WARNING: these default settings may suck on some videos. Read the
> how-to-do-it-better guide at http://url.com/"

NO!!!!!!!!!!! There should most definitely NOT be defaults for these
values, since they inhibit the creation of near-perfect quality
encodes using insane bitrates. The defaults should ALWAYS be the most
basic settings (usually a nice "round" number, i.e. 0), and then the
user can customize only what's needed.

Rich