[MPlayer-users] bugreport

[Arpi]

Hi,

> I get extremely poor quality video when encoding with mencoder.
> The audio quality is good, but I get traces from objects in the movie when it 
> is replayed.  Also, images get highly pixelated- sometimes in fast action, 
> sometimes in slow- I see no pattern. I have tried doing a mplayer -vc divx4  
> at playback also.  That improves the output slightly, but not very much at 
> all.  I am using the current divx4linux 
> release (from avilfile web site as you suggested)  This is happening with 
> Jurrasic Park 3 and with The Matrix.


> mandrake 8.1
> kernel 2.4.16 SMP (only 1 proc in currently)
> libc-2.2.4.so

nice system info, but where is the mencoder -v output?
i'm interested in what options you used for encoding.

from your description, it's just a too-low bitrate problem.
or you used too small keyframe interval or bad codec...


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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