[XviD-devel] Comparison "old" vs "new" adaptive quant code

[Dirk Knop]

Hi,

Christoph Lampert wrote:

>USE_SQUARES simply searched more points in every step (a 3x3 square of 8
>neighbours instead of a diamond with 4 neigbours). So it's slower, but
>also less likely to get trapped in a local minimum. It's save to use 
>USE_SQUARES with PMVfast. 
>
Thanks for the clear explanation! :)

>Btw. I don't know if it's default, but you can also use ADVANCED_DIAMOND
>instead. That's somehow a more clever way of using diamonds. It could
>be even faster that normal diamond and still give quality similar to
>SQUARES. 
>  
>
What do you think about that:

Make ADVANCED_DIAMOND default for search precision 5, and use SQUARES 
with search precision 6 in VFW?

Koepi