[MPlayer-users] Problems playing an XVID file.

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:14:46PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> The Wanderer wrote:
> 
> >Rainer Hantsch wrote:
> >
> >>Hello!
> >>
> >>I tried to play a movie I got. It has extreme distortion of the video
> >>and mplayer (as well as xine) reports repeatedly that it does not
> >>support more than one warp point.
> >
> >
> >"Warp point"? I don't know what you're talking about; certainly there is
> >no occurrence of the phrase "warp point" in MPlayer (although there are
> >variables which talk about "sprite warping points", but I'm fairly sure
> >that those are unrelated, especially since they never get printed).
> >
> 
> "warp points" are parameters related to the GMC settings, a generally 
> bad technique to
> use, as it is incompatible with almost all standalone decoders for sale

Standalone hardware players suck; avoiding features to appease them is
stupid. However, GMC is bad for many other reasons, mainly that it
offers almost no compression benefits and significantly increases
cache thrashing during decoding.

Rich