[MPlayer-users] Latest XviD improvements

[Nico]

idontknownoname at gmx.net wrote:

>That the quality was not as expected is for sure due to the fact that I
>couldn't get XviDs nice improvements to work, namely qpel, VHQ and bframes...
>The movie has many low-motion scenes, and not using bframes would be a real
>waste, I think, and since VHQ was improved a lot lately, I'm nearly always
>using it (although I read lately that the higher levels are not supposed atm to
>be used with bframes)...
>So, what I want to ask is this:
>Is the fact that the -xvidencopts accept only the "basic" XviD-features due
>to fact that I'm not using the latest CVS-version of Xvid at the moment
>(which I will be doing soon), or is it currently a limitation of mencoder?
>
yes, you need  the latest xvid, not 0.9.x

>I'm using the CVS-version of mplayer, so it seems to me that there is no
>support in mencoder for this features...
>
wrong, there is, and it already supports xvidcvs (I use it every day).
Maybe you have some problem during the compilation of mencoder that you 
didn't realize of?