[MPlayer-users] Re: Discoloration / artifacts when playing Lavc encoded video on Windows. Anyone else notice it?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:46:51AM -0500, Michael Waters wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:37 -0600, John Evans wrote:
> 
> > I am creating multi-platform video. I have noticed that there is
> > discoloration / artifacts between keyframes when playing lavc encoded
> > video on a Windows box with the divx 5.x.x codec. This has been a
> > problem for some time now. My video is at 624 x 480 & keyframe
> > interval is 300, so I know it is not the macroblock problem. My guess
> > is that the divx codec does not know what to do with the lavc video.
> > 
> > Anyone know where I can find a Windows port of the lavc / lavcodec /
> > libavcodec for Windows that I can include with my video discs? I
> > found one for the Mac and only a reference about porting the source
> > on a Google search. A port that will also play Divx 5.0.2 pro encoded
> > video would be better.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> ffdshow: http://cutka.szm.sk/ffdshow/ . It's libavcodec.  The alpha
> builds seem to work ok.

ffdshow is nice, but it seems to have been discontinued.... :((

Rich