[MPlayer-users] Which codec is fast and good?

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2003 08:12 schrieb Rainer Hantsch:

> Yesterday I gave pp=tn a chance - because of the hint of Matthias
> Wieser.
>
> o  The first thing I recognized is that it causes much less CPU load.
> My Celeron-1700 was running at 95-100% with 'denoise3d' but it was
> somewhere around 50-70% (mostly 60%) with pp=tn.
>    A good optimization.

Here too.

>    Recording 2:05:00 of TV in 640x400 (I recorded StarGate for
> testing), resulted in 4.8 GB File size !!! This would have been
> somewhere at 3.5GB with 'denoise3d', I estimate, based on earlier tests
> with 1 minute recordings.

Without pp=tn the size should be even larger.
My experience is, that tn is better than nothing but minimal worse than 
denoise3d. But tn doesn't need much CPU time.

Does anybody know, what's the (visible) difference between denoise3d and 
hq_denoise3d?

          Matthias