[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.990,1.991

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 07:11:24PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 05 June 2005 16:57, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> >
> > On 6/5/05, Jindrich Makovicka CVS <syncmail at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
> > >
> > > +.B fspp[=quality[:qp]]
> > > +faster version of the simple postprocessing filter
> >
> > BTW, am I the only one not to understand what "simple" stands for here
> > when this filter, to the best of my knowledge, filters even more
> > artifacts than "-vf pp". So to me it looks like it does more things,
> > which in essence contradicts the idea that this is a "simple" filter.
> >
> > Could someone explain that to me maybe?
> 
> the reason behind the "simple" in the name of the original spp filter is that 
> the algorithm is very simple and generic in principle
> it just compresses and decompresses an image at several (all in case of spp=6) 
> shifts and averages these
> in practice it obviously skips all the unneeded steps like bitstream 
> en/decoding

Committed :)

Diego