[MPlayer-users] lavc vs. xvid (and improving lavc quality)

[Jason Tackaberry]

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 20:03 -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> I never use postproc and I never see blocks. BTW perhaps you're
> (stupidly) using vqscale= rather than bitrate/2pass encoding.

Why would a vqscale=2 encode be worse in quality than a 2-pass encode
(with the default vqmin)?

> quality, since none of us who encode the right way (2pass) are
> noticing any problem whatsoever...

I do.

Luckily with -vf spp=2,noise=9a:5a things look pretty good to my eye.  

Cheers,
Jason.