[MPlayer-users] Re: divx 6

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Freitag, 28. April 2006 19:02 schrieb Rich Felker:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:05:22AM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> No, I mean the fiasco with using invalid testing methodology, refusing
> to come clean on the cases of bias in his testing, and getting made at
> lavc and disqualifying it from the tests after I flames him (keep in
> mind I am just a lavc user and have nothing to do with lavc
> development).

Lavc just was to slow and had some additional issues.

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

DivX: 70fps
LAVC: 26fps
Xvid: 71fps
[...]
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-main-105-1.htm

> Historically Xvid is slow and bad.

...only on mplayer-dev-eng

> Apparently  
> that's not the case for encoding anymore

Hear, hear..

> but it's definitely the case 
> for decoding with xvid...

Please insert your benchmark numbers:
lavc: [...]fps
xvid: [...]fps

     Matthias