[MPlayer-users] MPlayer - DivX 4 and 5

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:53, Alexey Morozov wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:23:52AM +0200, Horv?th Istv?n wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > > Forgive me my ignorance, but tell me: can I compile MPlayer to use
> > > DivX4 and DivX5, or have to I decide to use it only one of them (and
> > > please share your experience about which one is better)?
> >
> > as you can see on the list, ffmpeg's libavcodec supports divx4 and 5!
> > (not sure to encode both of them, but can decode 4 and 5)
>
> There's a little problem w/ mplayer + (ffmpeg vs. divx any version)
> issue. mplayer doesn't support [fully] (post)processing for divx so
> badly encoded movies remain looking badly. From another hand it looks
> like libavcodec's postprocessing (tried different pp's) not so hmm...
> powerful as divx5 one even I have enough CPU time to be eaten by
> processing. Yes it fixes the most noisy things like totally squared picture
> but I definitely see the difference between the same movies on my
> MPlayer/ffmpeg'ed linux and a friend's WMP/divx5'ed computer. And,
> unfortunately most of questions regarding divx5 postprocessing
> support in MPlayer ended w/ "Why do you need it if there's a wonderful
> FFMPEG?!"
can u upload screenshoots from divx5 so ehh good pp (and upload the movie 
too) to mplayerhq.hu (i have just compared divx501 pp against ours and well 
divx501 looks pretty bad ...)
btw use "-npp de" for postprocessing no -pp stuff

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Michael