i am just curious - what's this hardcase test ?? can you say your specs for this test ?? greetings cabal

@Koepi: Can you do a compile without BFRAMES_DEC or does that interfere with the ffdshow stuff (I still havent got around to looking at ffdshow !) If you can, then I can send you a new Dshow filter without the green bug (but with BFRAMES_DEC on it doesnt work at all :( ) -Nic

@nic: uh, i didn't define bframe_dec at all - just bframes(and this is just lazyness, i wanted to disable them but i was to eager to see results of my modifications ;) ) So it's strange you encounter prblems... should I generally #undef BFRAMEs, may that help? @cabal: hehe, nice to see you here as well ;) well, my hard case is the movie I mentioned in the "new curve treatment thread". It has plenty of scenes where consecutive iframes are necessary, and with the old binaries it was har dto make an acceptable encoding even at 640x272 for 1CD... this binary makes it BETTER quality (setting b-frames to -1 i have to insist on) than everything i did before... I hope this helps! Regards, Koepi

No BFRAMES is fine, BFRAMES_DEC is the bit that doesnt work well. I should try discussing it with chemn over the next week see if can help resolve it. Im going to try & work on xvid a bit more again, Ive been using DivX5 recently but last night I was testing different bicubic settings. The test clip I used looked cr*p even with 2pass (at the bitrate of 628 I was using), so I thought Id try XviD. Came out excellent. So I thought "Back to XviD" it is then ! :) (& that was compared to DivX5 with Bframes) Cheers, -Nic

Uh. I didn't realize there were changes to the 1pass code - can you please do a "propper" 2pass to test the new code? :) Thanks for your hep, regards, Koepi

Funny... 1-pass mode seems to have improved either intentionally or not. :D

is this build SMP enabled? 

Is this build 'SMP enabled' just like the previous one? Alan.

Nope. SMP has a bad speed impact on uni-processor machines so I compile it as usual release without SMP support.

@Koepi, sorry.. it's stupid question... 1. how to disable the B-frame support ? 2. could I use Nic's DS filter to play the result ? thanks.