Even if you compare #2 and #3 and they are similar quality, what would that prove? You could do #3 for a specific file after Beamr Video has processed it, but how would you know the right bitrate for #3 without applying Bearm Video in #2?
Independent person from the industry here following this (as I am sure there are many more onlookers to this thread).
drorgill i think now is the time to provide some hard empirical evidence on your part, given the initial claims and a sample test done here it is my feeling that it should be relatively trivial to provide a counter example. cheers.
1) Compress the original with x264, target around 2mbit
2) Compress the result of #1 with your algorithm.
3) Compress the original with x264, target the bitrate of the result of #2
Compare #2 and #3