[MPlayer-users] Re: divx 6

[Matthias Wieser]

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:43:02PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 21:00 schrieb Corey Hickey:
> > > Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> > > > hello
> > > >
> > > > is there any way to use the linux divx 6 binary codec with mencoder
> > > > ? http://labs.divx.com/DivXLinuxCodec
> > >
> > > No, though if someone were to add support it would be useful for
> > > testing and comparison.
> > >
> > > In any case, you'll probably get better performance and/or quality by
> > > using XviD or libavcodec MPEG-4, both of which are well-supported in
> > > mencoder.
> >
> > Xvid and DivX 6.1 seem to be much faster at better quality than
> > libavcodec. http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-main-105-1.htm
>
> Don't post doom9 crap here, he's not respected at all after the last
> fiasco.

You mean the fiasco that mencoder with the best encoding options (selected 
by it's own developers) is much slower than xvid while giving worse 
quality? It's even much slower than DivX.

Pretending that Xvid and Divx are slow and bad does not help...