[MPlayer-dev-eng] XviD Vbr Libary

[Kim Minh Kaplan]

Christoph Lampert writes:

> Kim Minh wrote:
>
>> I have modified mencoder's divx4 encoder so that it can make use of
>> XviD VBR Library (found in transcode's sources).
>
> This library is not for general use, yet. It still has problem with too
> large quantizers for keyframes, also, the parameters are not optimimal.

Yes I know that.  And probably the parameters will be tuned for XviD
and not DivX.

> If you use it now, be aware of that. For the moment, the main advantage,
> is that it's 100% GPL.
> If divx4_vbr.c is still the one I "wrote" long ago, that still has
> OpenDivX license code in it. 

I think this is the *only* motivation for working on alternate VBR
code.  Except may be for B frames handling, which XviD VBR Library
does not handle yet...

Kim Minh.