[MPlayer-users] Re: [POOL] Moderate some users (was: Re: [-] Re: divx 6)

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Freitag, 5. Mai 2006 11:44 schrieb RC:
> On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:22:31 +0200
>
> Matthias Wieser <mwieser at gmx.de> wrote:
> > "XviD 1.1 is finally about to be released. A few bugs have been fixed
> > since  beta2, and recently there has been some SMP optimization, but
> > the release  of those optimizations was too close to the deadline to
> > make the test."
> > (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-main-105-1.htm)
>
> Fair enough, I didn't notice that.  My point still applies to Divx 6.
> And Xvid did get somewhat of a speed up from SMP:    "(2): Non
> optimized codec, but because VirtualDub separates input reading (and
> thus decoding and resizing of the source) from encoding, it can still
> make good use of an SMP system."

The same should be true for lavc, too, although he does not mention this.


> > Of course it can help. Not only scientific animated visualisations but
> > also  "real world" content. E.g. I have encoded a video captured from
> > a  helicopter with and without gmc.
> > gmc gives 35.50dB vs 35.44 dB without gmc. This clearly proves that
> > gmc can  help (1).
>
> As has been said already, these are the kinds of things that could
> and should have been said in the first place, and perhaps it wouldn't
> have turned into just another shouting match.

Benchmarking needs time. Why should I invest time only because some random 
person wants to flame about gmc? Even some using googe should be enough to 
find evidence that gmc can sometimes help. 

Regards,
  Matthias