[MPlayer-users] Distortion between different versions of MPlayer/Mencoder

[Joseph N. Hall]

> > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >i guess thats only happenig with files which have width or height %16 =! 
> > >0, 
> > Yes, that seems to fit.
>
> Never encode with width/height %16 != 0!! It will hurt quality a lot
> even without buggy encoders!

This doesn't apply to lossless encoders like huffyuv, one assumes?

Does it apply to anything other than MPEG{1,2,4}-type encoders?
And are there cases where block sizes of 8 are as good as 16?

Just curious (as usual),

  -joseph