[MPlayer-users] Scrubbing an mpeg4 movie...

[Jan Knutar]

On Monday 23 February 2004 17:47, Paul Simpson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know any good settings/tips that will allow me to createa
> an mpeg4 movie that can be scrubbed forwards/backwards than the
> deafult settings allow?  I belive that mpeg4 creates such high
> quality movies *because* it uses keyframes etc.. but that's where my
> knowledge ends. Is this at all possible?

What does scrub mean?

keyframes use alot more bits than non-keyframes. You could really say 
that one reason mpeg4 achieves higher quality for a set bitrate, is 
because it uses _less_ keyframes.