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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 06:20:04PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> 
> > Do you perhaps have your monitor brightness turned up insanely high,
> > and/or messed up gamma "correction"? With proper settings blocks are
> > not visible even at q=3 or 4.
> 
> I'm beginning to think that all lavc developers suffer with the same 
> kind of monitor that I do ;-) I've never noticed blockiness myself on 

It's not suffering, but having a good monitor. On a good monitor, low
levels will be very close to one another. Otherwise dark areas will
have ugly banding from visible "steps" in the brightness level, and
everything just looks way too bright.

Rich