[MPlayer-users] Produce 422 format pixels with mencoder for mpeg4-encoding

[James Board]

>Even if some obscure part of the huge specification allowed

>it (it doesn't), nothing could decode it.
>The only mainstream codecs with 422 support are MPEG-2 and H.264.
>(a few more obscure ones like theora, dirac, prores etc. support it as
>well).

Does the MPEG4 spec not support 422 pixels?  I didn't know
that.  If so, then there's no point in me telecining and editing in 422
format, right?