[x264-devel] Theora Ahead of H.264 In Objective PSNR Quality

[Felipe Contreras]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser
<darkshikari at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Jason Martens <cacepi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From Slashdot:
>>
>> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/07/2352203
>>
>> Let the debunking begin!
>
> Apparently they seem to have used catastrophically bad settings for
> encoding.  I'm going to guess they just encoded idiotically with
> ffmpeg without using any presets, thus using ffmpeg's quite broken
> defaults.  I suspect this is entirely intentional.

I don't think it was intentional. How are people expected to encode
using x264? I guess most people trust ffmpeg and mencoder.

That's one of the reasons why it's good to make sure upper layers use
your stuff correctly.

Personally I wrote a simple x264 GStreamer element that unlike the
semi-official x264enc, it uses whatever default values libx264 uses.

-- 
Felipe Contreras