# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1073889030 0 # Node ID 8e7098f960f8d0ff3e2a62f22d2202211e22343f # Parent 71cf4cc1a4543935e05f65992a6b15562bc6bc26 some little clarifications and additions patch by Samuli K¸«£rkk¸«£inen diff -r 71cf4cc1a454 -r 8e7098f960f8 DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml Mon Jan 12 03:57:30 2004 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml Mon Jan 12 06:30:30 2004 +0000 @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ - There are two ways to avoid this. You can try encoding again using + There are three ways to avoid this. You can try encoding again using and see if both the resulting file size and picture quality are acceptable. You can also use 2 pass encoding. @@ -643,6 +643,14 @@ option without using 3 pass encoding. + + + + The third and possibly the best option may be to slightly scale down + the resolution. The uniform slight softening and loss of detail is + visually more appealing than the blockiness and other artifacts + caused by MPEG compression. Scaling down also effectively reduces the + noise of the picture, which is good, as noise is hard to compress. @@ -701,8 +709,9 @@ Scaling and aspect ratio - For best quality, do not scale the movie while ripping. Scaling - causes artifacts and makes the file larger. Pixels in DVD movies + For best quality, do not scale the movie while ripping. Scaling down + obviously loses detail, and scaling up causes artifacts and obviously + makes the file larger. Pixels in DVD movies are not square, so DVD movies include info about the correct aspect ratio. It is possible to store the aspect ratio in the MPEG4 header of the output file. Most video players ignore this info, but