[MPlayer-users] ON2 FLIX Engine Mencoder

[Dave Puryear]

Sean Montague wrote:
> I have recently been handed videos that after much time researching
> encoding options, had to use FLIX Pro to get an acceptable result.
> Because of this, we will be moving to the ON2 Flix Engine for Linux.
>  From what I understand, the Flix Engine uses mencoder to encode. The
> only advantage would be the VP6 codec option. I have yet to figure out
> why Flix Pro was able to encode the videos acceptably and not
> mencoder. I know given enough time, I probably could, but time has
> run out. Should I expect the Flix Engine to give similar results as
> Flix Pro or just mencoder?
> 
> Sean

Mencoder's involvement with Flix is limited.
http://www.on2.com/technology/library/
The changelogs & release notes are quite revealing...
--DP