On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Maarten de Boer wrote: > If I understand you correctly, you are saying that using B frames will > result in less player compatibility? And Richard suggests dual prima > motion estimation is causing less player compatibility. So I guess it is > best (compatibility wise) to both turn off B frames and turn of DPME (-R > 0 --no-dualprime-mpeg2)? Did I understand that correctly? I think there is a small misunderstanding ;)
Using B frames will increase player compatibility. It is the act of NOT using B frames which begins to cause problems because some MPEG-2 decoders do not implement part of the MPEG-2 specification (perhaps it is an optional part? I do not not know). For maximum compatibility, but not necessarily the highest quality, use -R 2 and use the normal 2 B frames between P frames (or you could use -R 1 and just use 1 B frame). The same degree of compatibility with some of the benefits of not using B frames is achieved by using --no-dualprime-mpeg2 with the default -R 0. Summary: Either use "-R 2" or "--no-dualprime-mpeg2 -R 0". IF you know that you're not dealing with broken mpeg-2 decoders then by all means use the default -R 0 and omit the --no-dual... Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users