Sorenson Fixes Deinterlacing Issues in Squeeze, Improves H.264 Quality
Sorenson Squeeze has long been a go-to, Swiss-Army-knife multiformat encoding tool. Last year, Jan Ozer reviewed the then-newest version, Sorenson Squeeze 5, and had this to say: "With Squeeze 5, Sorenson took baby steps in some critical new directions. Unfortunately, unless it’s your child, baby steps are seldom graceful or particularly effective, and that’s the case here."
In particular, he found that problems with the tool's deinterlacing filter and quality issues with its H.264 output, particularly after scene changes. Ozer recently reviewed the latest iteration, version 5.1, and found that the jaggies introduced by version 5's deinterlacing filter were no longer a problem and that the H.264 quality was "dramatically improved".
Looks like with version 5.1, Squeeze is once again hitting its stride.