[XviD-devel] pre0 milestone

[Michael Militzer]

Hi,

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> We discussed that stuff on IRC and those things which produce
> non-standard-profile streams _could_ make their way into the codec -
> with a flag indicating the status: XVID_NONSTANDARD or similar. In vfw
> (which concerns you as a windows user) it would be an extra tab called
> "NONSTANDARD COMPLIANT FEATURES".
>
> But that's still undecided. I still vote for it, as it's fun to play
> around with that.

I'm strictly against adding non-compliant features. Apparently many people
already play their xvid clips with different decoders than xvid while at the
same time most people don't have a clue what the different encoding options
really mean - this situation is already a problem today and would be an even
bigger one in the future if we would add non-compliant features.

Also I don't see any need to implement non-compliant algorithms: The
benefits of a per-frame qpel decision over a per GOP decision in 2pass
encoding (as pete proposed) are minimal in my opinion and it's simply not
worth it to therefore leave the standard.

bye,
Michael