[MPlayer-dev-eng] DivX5 & VBR encoding

[Kim Minh Kaplan]

Arpi writes:

> what about just dropping 2-pass support for divx4/divx5, and implement
> 2-pass for the xvid codec. xvid support is broken anyway, i remember someone
> working on ve_xvid.c, but don't remember the finish.
>
> imho teh divx4 people (divx.com) should provide 2-pass functionality in their
> closedsourec lib, or change the license of their old 2-pass code to GPL.
>
> imho we should support xvid, rather than divx4.
> they seem to don't care about linux - the linux releases are buggy and comes
> ages later than win releases, not talking about missing functionality like B
> frames encoding.

I'd hate dropping support for DivX.  That's what I use regularly.
Last time I checked XviD & lavc it gave worse results than what I get
with DivX.  True I didn't tune much of the options, but for a quick &
easy encode at least, DivX is not bad at all.

I also have some source that implement ve_xvid that can cohabite with
DivX, but that's probably not what you are talking about as I never
mentionned it to anybody.  Though if it would interest people I could
commit it after some clean up.

Kim Minh.