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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:59:36PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> Am Montag, 31. Mai 2004 13:59 schrieb Jan Knutar:
> > On Sunday 30 May 2004 22:12, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> > > It's the best comparison I know which includes libavcodec and other
> > > modern codecs. They even used good libavcodec parameters.
> >
> > Didn't they use a very old libavcodec, based on ffmpeg 0.4.8 or
> > something funny like that? :-)
> 
> They used the most recent version they got.

They didn't even use libavcodec but rather ffvfw. I think there's a
new vfw interface in ffdshow now, but the old "ffvfw" used an ancient
version of lavc and used xvid's rate control code (which is much
worse) rather than the native lavc code.

Rich