[MPlayer-users] mencoder video card recommendation

[Matthew W. Miller]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:02:52PM +0200, Ville Saari wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 05:20:11PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
>> Pretty much? WTF? Something's either lossless or it's not. Huffyuv is
>> lossless of course.
>Well... one might argue that mencoder produced huffyuv is only "pretty
>much lossless" as mencoder's random frame skipping would introduce some
>loss ;-)

For what it's worth, the 'random' frame skipping seems to be getting 
better, or maybe I'm imagining it.
	Arguably huffyuv is only as lossless as the colourspace being
used.  If you're converting from rgb32 to yv12 in the process of
outputting huffyuv, for example, then you're going to lose some chroma
fidelity.  Also arguably, this loss is trivial, since the final compressed
movie is probably going to be decompressed to yv12 *anyway*.
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