On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Richard Ellis wrote: > For the numbers I posted, the q value was 7. It is interesting that > -N would have differing effects depending on the -q value. That may
Initially I thought it unusual but after thinking about it a bit it's to be expected. The lower -q is the "harder" the encoder will push up against the bitrate limit - the increase in the high frequency quantizers have less effect if a high quality (low -q) has been given. > depend on how/where -N is applied within the encoder. If it's > applied after -q has had it's effect, then that might explain why > changing -q changes -N's effect. Probably a good idea to mention that -N affects the quanization matrices. It's not that the two options are separate operations applied in sequence. -q sets the quantization scale and -N affects the hf entries in the matrices. I think that setting a low qscale causes the slight "rolloff" from low -N to have less effect - eventually, at larger -N, the effect finally becomes more noticeable. The difference between bitrate (which I tend to use instead of filesize) for -N 0.0 and -N 0.1 at -q 5 is 7379200 vs 7378400 while for -q 8 it was 7048000 vs 6896400 It should be an interesting table but will take another day or so to complete. > reports that it's using the MMX and SSE extensions that are available > for a P4. Are all the MMX/SSE optimizations the same for both copies > of mpeg2enc? If not, that would imply that the optimizations aren't Supposedly MMX/SSE is enabled for all instances of mpeg2enc. But that has to be the case - have you ever tried running a non-MMX enabled mpeg2enc? Oh my god it's slow - about a factor of 5 or so if memory serves me correctly (few years back there was a kernel bug that prohibited MMX from working correctly, I could run mpeg2enc but it was painful - thankfully the bug was fixed and instead of .3 frames/sec a P3-800 can get around 1.5 or a bit less). I suppose there could be mathlibrary differences - I'm not sure how much mpeg2enc uses -lm routines. I should try a run on the G4 Powerbook and see what it comes up with. Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users