Just a shot from the hip (as I am no ffmpeg specialist at all...):
Could it be that you still use Q units for lmin, lmax, mblmin and mblmax while newer ffmpeg versions use lambda units?
See this post:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...26#post1662726
Whatever, for my AVStoDVD plugin I use the parameters supplied by Fishman from this post:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...63#post1663063
And with these parameters dark and static scenes do look very good...
Cheers
manolito