[MPlayer-users] Encoding quality advices

[Chris Phillips]

> < 0.10: don't do it. Please. I beg you!
> < 0.15: It will look bad.
> < 0.20: You will notice blocks, but it will look ok.
> < 0.25: It will look really good.
> > 0.25: It won't really improve visually.
> > 0.30: Don't do that either - try a bigger resolution instead.
> 
> Of course these values are not absolutes! For movies with really lots
> of black areas 0.15 may look very good. Action movies with only high
> motion scenes on the other hand may not look perfect at 0.25. But these
> values give you a great idea about which resolution to chose.

Really interesting email, but is this really that much of an argument 
against automation? If the process is done intelligently rather than 
blindly then surely we are fine again. Reading this i'm going to make some 
changes to my acidrip program to offer hints based on the bpp value, which 
i'll quite likely bastardise your script for if you don't mind. Would you 
still react against it if my automation program were to recommend using 
a higher bitrate or something?

chris
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