[MPlayer-users] advice on mencoder options

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:54:06PM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, anton wrote:
> 
> >HR said this:
> >>mencoder -mc 0 -noskip -skiplimit 0 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> >>vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:trell:mbd=2:vmax_b_frames=1:v4mv:vb_strategy=0:cmp=2:subcmp=2:precmp=2:predia=1:dia=1:vme=4
> 
> This looks exactly like the arguments that I have suggested...
> 
> >Tuuka said this:
> >>Consider using some of the below options;
> >>mbd=2 instead of vhq (mbd=1)
> 
> I don't remember me saying this. Well, anyway, the command line has first
> vhq and then mbd=2 and the latter overrides the first.
> But I think that it might be possible that in the future vhq could set some
> other things than just mbd (or maybe it already does) and therefore I like
> to always use also vhq in addition to mbd.

No, this makes no sense. vhq is identical to mbd=1 and always will be
(until it's finally removed as obsolete).

Rich