[MPlayer-users] MPlayer-1.0pre4 bug with divx4 multipass filter

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:34:36PM -0700, rcooley wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:45:21 -0400
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > imo there's absolutely no way to fix 2 with a block-based codec,
> 
> Well, "LoopFiltering" comes to mind.  That's part of the H.264 standard,
> so it shouldn't be long before being commonly in-use.  
> 
> In addition, as far back as VP3, I was impressed with On2's codec for
> it's apparent lack of blocking artifacts, despite being block-based
> like every other codec at the time.

umm, if you hide a deblock filter in the codec binary, of course there
won't be blocks...

> > but the real solution is to abandon block-based codecs.
> 
> I'll go one better...  The solution is to abandon digital video
> all-together.  Long live analog!

rotfl. we can go back to the days where quality becomes crap after you
copy one or two times, and you can't share your files... sounds fun!
at least the mpaa will be pleased....

rich