[MPlayer-users] Encoding (DivX) (able to play on Windows?)

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 12/11/06, Ivan Kowalenko <ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 11, 2006, at 03.59, RC wrote:
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> > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:59:30 -0400
> > Jorge Fábregas <jfabregas at onelinkpr.net> wrote:
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> >> what generally gives better quality? lavc or xvid?
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> > You're just asking for a flamewar...
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> Oh God, I remember the last big MPEG-4 flamewar. Over GMC. To quote
> Dr. J. Zoidberg, "everywhere it went! What a [many many many] day[s]
> it was!"
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> > IMHO, lavc, if for no other reasons than the nr, *cmp, and *_mask
> > options.
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> I have to agree on this one. I find that, in my experience (remember,
> your milage may vary!) lavc is more efficient when doing encode jobs.


Third(ed). XviD is easier to use as it has better default settings,
lavc has more options to play with to make it look better, but in that
case (extreme quality settings), it tend to be slower that xvid.

Guillaume
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