[MPlayer-users] Motion Compensation extension

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Karol Pietrzak wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I apologize for my ignorance.  Is this supposed to be a sarcastic 
> comment?

No, its intended top reduce the number of stupid and repeated questions 
these lists get. The developers are obviously "real programmers" who dont 
bother with sissy things like comments in the source code. So they get 
sick of Q's that are already answered.
 
> However, I see no reason why software decoders can't produce output of 
> equal or surpassing quality?

Sure. Same thing with 3D graphics. There's nothing that harware 
accelerators do that software cant, given a fast enough CPU ;-)
   These days, the CPU is fast enough that you dont need a hardware mpeg 
decoder. But a modern vga card does some "hardware" assistance, eg 
colourspace conversion and scaling.

> How does MPlayer output compare to that of something like, say, WMP?

Well take a look!!  Mostly it depends on the codec, I would think.

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