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

[Jan Knutar]

On Sunday 30 May 2004 18:54, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 12:06 +0700, Evgueni V. Gavrilov wrote:
> > this comparison isn't correct because by default lavc doesn't
> > create B-frames, but xvid does.
>
> It does?  I assumed it didn't because the man page says (under
> xvidencopts):
>
>    max_bframes=<0-4>
>         maximum number of B frames to put between I/P frames
> (default=0)

RTFS reveals that the default is 2, if you aren't using ancient xvid. 
(libmpcodecs/ve_xvid4.c)

The manual isn't very reliable on xvid, unfortunately.