[MPlayer-users] lavc vs. xvid (and improving lavc quality)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 06:38:32AM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> DRFI>It's not suffering, but having a good monitor. On a good monitor, low
> DRFI>levels will be very close to one another. Otherwise dark areas will
> DRFI>have ugly banding from visible "steps" in the brightness level, and
> DRFI>everything just looks way too bright.
> 
> My monitor's brightness & gamma are calibrated to 2.5 gamma, and I see
> a lot of blocks and defects with vqscale=2 & original resolution
> (without scaling) on certain dvd rips. Of course, -vf pp removes them,
> but it removes details as well and blurs everything.  -vf noise=12uah
> improves picture, but not much.

Turn gamma correction OFF!

Rich