[MPlayer-users] WMV3 files look much better in WMP10

[Roberto Togni]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:15:36 -0700 (PDT)
Axel Boldt <axelboldt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Using the precompiled Windows version of MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.2, with the wmv9dmo codec from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-essential-20060611.zip, some WMV3 videos look much better in Windows Media Player 10 than in mplayer. Do I have to use any particular command line options to smoothen the image?
> 
> See for example http://webmaster.bigsister.net/video/clip-7.wmv (adult content).
> 

This file has multiple audio and video tracks, 

============ ASF Stream group == START ===
 stream count=[0x6][6]
   stream id=[0x1][1]
   max bitrate=[0x8bdd][35805]
   stream id=[0x2][2]
   max bitrate=[0x5b9a][23450]
   stream id=[0x3][3]
   max bitrate=[0x4c6a3][312995]
   stream id=[0x4][4]
   max bitrate=[0x3e7fb][255995]
   stream id=[0x5][5]
   max bitrate=[0x1addb][110043]
   stream id=[0x6][6]
   max bitrate=[0xc70b][50955]
============ ASF Stream group == END ===
Found movie at 0x1B3D - 0x39EC3D
ASF: 2 audio and 4 video streams found
Auto-selected ASF video ID = 6
ASF: Searching for audio stream (id:-1).
Auto-selected ASF audio ID = 2

MPlayer autoselects the last audio and video tracks, but they are not
the highest quality ones.
You have to manually selects the best tracks looking at the bitrate
and using -aid and -vid, in this case try -aid 1 -vid 3

Ciao,
 Roberto