[MPlayer-dev-eng] [REQUEST] DivX Pro 5.2 DLL (divxdec.ax) inMPlayer?

[Ivan Kalvachev]

I'm sorry to say it, but this is not the right maillist to make
request. And we are not eager to educate newbies like you.

I can assure you that we track carefuly every video related events.
And we have enough knowadge not to fall pray of the Comersial Advertice.

As somebody already told you, DivX5 codecs incorporate postprocessing
inside them. On anoter side MPlayer makes postprocessing with separate
plugins, that you should add. I can assure you that there is an "simple
postprocess" filter that can make even the most crappy mpeg1 file nearly
watchable. You may need something like 4GHz CPU to use it at its maximum
strength.

The DivX Pro codecs are encoder codecs, all DivX5 codecs have nearly same
decoders. As we don't support win32 ENcoders, there is no sense of supporting
and DivX5.2 Pro.

The DivXNetowrks are good enough to provide native Linux codec, and I think
that it is the already mensioned DivX5.02 . It doesn't support
any of the advanced encoding fetures of DivX5, it have not been updated
for quite long time (haven't check recently).

As encoder DivX 5.2 Pro is still catching up the XviD 1.0 codec, and as
XviD 1.0 is opensource, we have much better support for native XviD.

Of cource MPlayer default codec is lavcodec (from FFMpeg project).
Quite of the nice new XviD 1.0 encoding features (e.g. trellis) are
originated from it.
And XviD people are using it as milestone for testing mpeg-4 compability.
I guess DivX people do the same.
Did I said it is the fasted decoder in the world?

BTW if you know ffdshow, you should know that the "ff" comes from FFMpeg name.
And the ffdshow contains some of the MPlayer code too.

If you have more questions, i highly recomend you to ask in mplayer-users
maillist, or in #mplayer channel irc.FreeNode.net

Wish You Best
   Ivan Kalvachev
  iive


ANDREAS SETTERLIND said:
> On Thur, Jul 22, 2004 at 08:23:00 CEST, Attila Kinali wrote:
>
>> The Divx codecs produce under Windows better image quality than
>> libavc (or worse, depending on how you see it) because they
>> always apply some filters (at least a sharpening, maybe more)
>> _even_ if you disable this. Thus the image difference on windows.
>
> Thanks for all your replies, know that my request was only a suggestion in
> order to get full DivX 5.X Pro support in MPlayer, personally I don't have any
> problems playing DivX 5.0, 5.1 or 5.2 Pro encodes in MPlayer for Windows (with
> the exception of the quality which is most likely only worse in MPlayer
> because of MPlayer's post-processing filters not being used, or possible
> bug/bugs with MPlayer post-processing filters on Win32?).
>
> Anyway, wondering if you can/should now update your compatibility list for
> supported video and audio codecs on your website and documentation for this,
> currently they state that 'only' DivX 5.02 is supported, guess that should be
> corrected to say DivX 5.2 (or at the very least DivX 5.0.5?)?, and maybe "Pro"
> should be mentioned to so newbies won't get confused ;-)
>
> Best regards / Andreas