[MPlayer-users] Problem Encoding Solid Color Objects With LAVC MPEG4

[Corey Hickey]

Angel wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I've reported this problem before but nothing really came of it. I more or 
> less dismissed the problem as being a limitation of mpeg4/bitrate etc. 
> However, I recently encoded the movie Bad Boys and during one of the scenes 
> there is a solid colored background behind one of the characters and it came 
> out looking like an 8 puzzle with large blocks shifting around. I decided to 
> try encoding the movie using DIVX 5.1 and virtualdub just to see how the 
> results would compare. To my extreme disappointment... the DIVX 5.1 version 
> looked 1000% better. The background looks kind of noisy (as it should) and 
> there are no large blocks moving around. Just for the hell of it... I also 
> tried encoding it using mencoder/xvid. The results were very similar to the 
> DIVX 5.1 results. I don't know if I should report this here or to the ffmpeg 
> list. I am willing to upload the source/results if that would be helpful. 

Yes, this would probably be more relevant on the ffmpeg-devel list.

Is it possible for you to upload the source file to some
publicly-accessible http or ftp server? I'm always curious to mess
around with files that are problematic to encode.

-Corey