[x264-devel] x264 quality improvements?

[Chengbin Zheng]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Marc Schulz <schulz.marc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems a bit silly to ask considering they are always improving something.
>
> Why don't you just encode lossless instead of reencodong everytime there is
> an improvement in quality. That way no more time wasted needing to reencode.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 18, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Chengbin Zheng <chengbinzheng at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Besides the weight-p patch, are there any other features that'll improve
>> compression efficiency coming this year? I'll be re-encoding my large
>> collection of videos soon for the last time. I've done it 3 times, and
>> they're not fun. I don't want to do it again (at least for a long time)
>> because the x264 developers did some black magic :) making x264 a lot more
>> efficient compression wise right after I finish, which happened 2 times.
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Encoding lossless defeats the point of reencoding wouldn't you say?

I'm encoding for a portable media player. Efficiency is key.
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