[MPlayer-users] VP6 support?

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 18:54 schrieb D Richard Felker III:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:05:37PM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 15:31 schrieb Amadeus:
> > > I have read about the VP6 codec from On2, and read the tests that
> > > they have provided. Judging from that, it should be better than
> > > WMV9. So I have been wondering, is VP6 also better than mpeg4 for
> > > high/low bitrates aswell?
> >
> > VP6 may be better than WMV9 and libavcodec but it is probably not
> > better than xvid:
>
> ROTFL!! This is nonsense, since it's a well known fact that ffmpeg's
> mpeg4 is better than xvid.

Could you give an url of a recent comparison?



> > http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-203-1.htm
>
> Doom9 is incompetent and doesn't know how to use lavc.

Then who else is enough competent to use lavc?

I'm probably not, because I think that doom9s lavc options are not bad:

mdb=2:4mv:trell:cmp=2:subcmp=2:vmax_b_frames=1
1 pass: vqscale=2,

Regards,
  Matthias (waiting for "-lavcopts profile=med_bitrate")