[MPlayer-users] crappy MPNG´s

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Schaman Christoph wrote:

>Second, there are two things: while Anti-aliasing seems to work pretty well
>inside povray, there is no effect of it to the final movies; even if the
>.png´s looked really nice before, after running through the encoding process,
>they look like that M.C. Escher stairway picture. Is there any filter, or

Very strange. Try smoothing the pictures when encoding (e.g. -vf boxblur).

>And third, concerning colors: I made the .png´s with a color depth of
>rgb16bit, but mencoder, if not told to use option -vop rgb2bgr, produces
>movies in false colors. If I reverse it with the above mentioned option, the

Looks like a bug. But I'd recommend to use 24/32-bit depth anyway
(the movie will be encoded at that depth).