[MPlayer-users] [draft] mplayer quickstart guide

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Monday 20 May 2002 19:28, D Richard Felker III wrote:
[...]
> Divx5Linux -- official ProjectMayo codec. Can decode DivX 3/4/5,
> OpenDivX, and (maybe?) ISO MPEG4. Apparently has bugs handling certain
> patterns of B frames (...can someone confirm or deny this?). Binary
this is just one of many bugs, a few others:
mpeg quantizers (ask the xvid ppl, they did test this against the reference 
impl)
data partitioning
randomly trashed images (dunno why ...)
...

> Win32 codecs -- mostly obsoleted, but some buggy DivX 3.x files that
> display weird artifacts (bars, hue shift, etc.) when played with newer
> codecs might look right with the original DivX 3 dll. Also includes
... and if _ANYONE_ has such files than upload them, we will fix libavcodec

[...]

Michael