gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> How practical would that be for POV-Ray?  Would it just be a coding headache, or
> a complete redesign?

  It's not a question of how difficult it would be to implement. It's a
question of whether you want povray to support creating lossy output or
not. Nothing would be more aggravating than starting your final render,
waiting 50 hours for it to finish, and then notice that you used the
wrong compression settings and your video looks like absolute crap.
At least if you have the lossless original frames, you can re-encode
easily without having to re-render.

  (Another issue is that creating an mpeg video (regardless of the mpeg
version) is not an unambiguous process. Some mpeg codecs are able to
create noticeably better image quality at the exact same file sizes
than other, lower-quality codecs.)

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