[Mplayer-dvb] picture quality of mpeg4 playback

[Arpi]

Hi,

> i try to play a divx4 encoded video via mplayer on the dvbs card. 
> However it plays, but has strange artefacts: in areas of high contrast (e.g. a white line on black ground) blocks appear. 
> I'm almost sure that the video is okay, because playing it in windows doesn't show these artefacts.
> I have already played around with the postprocessing (-pp ) - but without any improvement.
> 
> Can anyone comment on this, and tell me what am i doing wrong ?

it's a known bug. it seems to mpeg1 encoder adds this artifacts (maybe some
overflow) at very low qscale values.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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