[MPlayer-users] livavcodec vs. win32 dll's

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Saturday 08 December 2001 19:40, Nilmoni Deb wrote:
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> It seems as per current codec selection ordering for playing divX movies,
> mplayer always looks for win32 dll first if compiled with both win32 dll
> support and ffmpeg libavcodec support. We have to use "-vfm 5" to force
> mplayer to use libavcodec. I am sure by now the following advantages of
> libavcodec over win32 dlls are clear:
>
> * its faster
> * it works on non-x86 systems
  * its buggy :(
there are problems with motion compensation if the width or? height isnt 
divisable through 16
the idct is buggy too and can result in horizontal stripes or slightly 
pink/green areas

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Michael