[MPlayer-users] Re: divx file sizes

[Rémi Guyomarch]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:30:36PM +0200, Hans Meine wrote:
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> Sadly his only quality measure is PSNR, which is a rather artificial
> measure and does not necessarily tell you which is the best quality
> in your eyes.  However, although I read about "better" measures, I
> cannot currently remember where.. But in general, one should use
> more than one measure (another equally simple and not better one
> would be MSE, the mean square error).

Yes, I completely agree with you that PSNR isn't a really good quality
index. For example, the very idea of lumi-masking (high compression of
nearly-all white or nearly-all dark zones) will probably *decrease*
overall PSNR but will probably *increase* visual quality. But right
now we don't have anything better :-(

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Rémi