[MPlayer-users] lavc-divx incompatibility

[Jack]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

>Hi,
>On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:09:04PM +0200, Ville Saari wrote:
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>>On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:24:20AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
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>>>>If I try to play lavc encoded mpeg4 on windows media player using divx
>>>>codec for decoding, then every now and then the image shatters into
>>>>random block mess and stays like that until the next I-frame.
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>I have been told that using B-frames is a bad idea, especially with
>lavc...
>qpel and v4mv are advanced features that are a bit more likely to cause
>trouble, too (though only with really old divx versions I think...)
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I've found that with some decoders, if I /don't/ use v4mv and a handful 
of other optimizations, I get bricks here and there.  When I'm just 
using lavc's default options is the only time I have a problem playing 
back a lavc encoded file in WMP with just divx.com's codec installed.

-jack