[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [BUG] encoding with xvid is totally messed

[Nico]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:

>Hi
>
>On Saturday 30 August 2003 09:28, Nico wrote:
>  
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>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>mencoder-cvs compiled  with xvid 0.9.x or xvid-cvs almost always shows
>>>>these  problems:
>>>>
>>>>1) either the divx2pass.log is totally corrupted (full ox 0x0), so the
>>>>2nd pass can't even begin
>>>>2) or the video is totally messed up, showing many artefacts and being
>>>>generally very very blocky, even at high bitrates
>>>>such as 1000 kb/s for a 640x416 resolution.
>>>>
>>>>Problems like these never show in mplayer-0.90 compiled with xvid-0.9.1,
>>>>even at lower bitrates.
>>>>
>>>>What happened in mencodercvs/ve_xvid to justify this brute change?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I guess it's not the problem of ve_xvid, but of the XviD itself. There
>>>have been some bugs discovered lately, but I don't know if that solved
>>>this problem. Also try the dev-api-4 XviD.
>>>
>>>Martin
>>>      
>>>
>>I repeated the test tonight: in both cases there was only xvid 0.9.1
>>installed on my system.
>>
>>Withe mplayer 0.91 the encoded movie was perfect, with mencoder cvs it was
>>a distater (a mosaic of blocks).
>>
>>Naturally the encoding settings and the movie itself were exactly the same.
>>    
>>
>u could try mencoder cvs with ve_xvid.c from 0.91
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I will try , thank you.

Nico