[MPlayer-users] Bad Video+Audio Quality on mpeg2

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:26:24PM +0200, Stefan Frings wrote:
> Hello,
> When I playback SVCD, the video and audio quality is really bad but other 
> formats play back fine. The same SVCD's look much better on my XBOX and DVD 
> player. Any ideas how I can fix this?

Are you watching them on a TV or on your monitor? SVCD is really bad
quality, but so is a TV set, and the TV will cover up the artifacts
quite well. You can improve the situation somewhat by using
postprocessing: -vf pp=vb/hb/dr. But it would be better to get good
mpeg4 rips instead of SVCD.

Rich