[MPlayer-users] advice on mencoder options

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:

>> 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

Well, then, why?

Why couldn't mencoder have two modes, fast realtime and slow but good
quality non-realtime?

In that case vhq could be a synonym for enabling the slow mode, and it
would set all sensible parameters to slow-but-good settings.

Right now one has to give long list of parameters by hand to achieve that,
and I'm sure most people don't want to waste their time to find out the
best options by reading documentation or even experimenting by hand.

Maybe it would be good idea to enable only features that still keep the
bitstream simple profile -compatible, but things like trellis and mbd=2
should be enabled with just a single vhq-option.