[MPlayer-users] Re: Problem Encoding Solid Color Objects With LAVC MPEG4

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:58:28PM +0200, Fabio Papa wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tuesday 23 September 2003 12:04, Angel wrote:
> > Yes. I tried multiple times to upload the source/results to
> > ftp.mplayerhq.hu/incoming but I couldn't get it to work. On the last
> > attempt I noticed the error message I received said that the device was out
> > of space. I've put the files on my server. You can download them from the
> > following URL: http://www.knight-industries.com/bad_boys. If you get the
> > problems with the ftp server fixed... let me know and I will upload the
> > clips there if you want.
> I've just seen your samples. Are the blocking artifacts more noticeable in 
> some places than others? Because, honestly, I cannot spot much difference 
> from divx to lavc, and I didn't try the xvid one because obviously it is 
> twice the size so I think a comparison won't be fair.
> For what I can see, both are good quality. I can't see any blocking artifact 
> in any of the two.

I agree. There are no blocking artifacts in either. Perhaps Angel was
confusing them with some different sort of artifact -- just plain
noise -- but as far as I can tell that has nothing to do with the
encode but rather it's just noise in the source. Using the hqdn3d
filter might help that.

Rich