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

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 6/5/05, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 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 :)

I'm glad I asked ! :-)

Guillaume
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