MPEG matrices for dummies?

[ecc]

I've been looking at comparisons of different encoders and some of the more advanced users suggest tweaking encoders by using custom matrices. I'm certainly not ready for that but I wondered if anyone here could recommend some links that explain more about these because whenever I type in the word matrix with any other video term I invariably get something about the film THE MATRIX (usually stuff about re-encoding that film into various formats).

[Midzuki]

So you still haven't learned how to use the damn Google, eh?

Begin here:

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,440,000 for quantize quantization matrices. (0.30 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=qu...trices&spell=1

First recommendations:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=318172

and

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=759321

HTH. Have fun!

[ecc]

So you still haven't learned how to use the damn Google, eh? :lol:

You're not entirely off the mark. I still go to Yahoo for some reason.