As ffmpeg2theora (the easiest tool for ogg/theora conversion) doesn’t have any «sharpness» options or ways to specificy image scaling, best way to get crisp results is by fixing and compiling. This can be achieved by opening src/ffmpeg2theora.c, and changing SWS_BILINEAR to i.e SWS_LANCZOS, and recompile. A full list of available options and keywords can be found under ffmpeg/libswscale/options.c.
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Note: compiling ffmpeg2theora should be performed by syncing SVN’s from http://www.xiph.org/svn/ in order about like this: ao, ogg, vorbis, (optional: speex, flac, kate), vorbis-tools, theora, ffmpeg2theora.
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Lugie Baird writes:
I agree that the Lanczos interpolator is almost always better than bicubic. However, it should not be necessary to recompile.
Try adding "-sws_flags lanczos" to the ffmpeg command line.