[MPlayer-users] Best mencoder codecs and options foranimations/cartoons?

[Loren Merritt]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, rcooley wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:07:34 -0300
> "Pablo Morales" <pablo.morales at abitab.com.uy> wrote:
>
>> Excuse me,
>> I've read the vmax_b_frames=1 is not a good option to achieve good
>> option when quality is a goal, am I wrong?
>
> I don't know of any way other than b-frames to make fade-in/fade-out
> scenes not look like utter crap...
>
> Sometimes mechanical values such as psnr isn't accurate enough to say
> how good something looks.

I'm working on weighted prediction in x264. It has the potential to work
as well or better than B-frames in a fade, and without the hassles of
re-ordering. Not that weighting and B-frames are mutually exclusive.

--Loren Merritt