[MPlayer-users] Video quality

[Martin Collins]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:36:32 -0700 (PDT)
joe user <palehaole at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I tried using
> lavc mpeg4 with vhq and the quality was not
> acceptable.  Are my expectations too high, or is it
> possible to get a good amount of compression while
> retaining an image quality that is not too far off
> from the quality of the original DVD?

It is certainly possible, depending on what you mean by "a good amount
of compression". Fitting an average length movie on a CD is realistic.
There is a lot of useful info in DOCS/encoding.html.

Martin