[XviD-devel] I haven't been here for 4 days and what I see? :)

[Marc FD]

> 2. Using chroma information for motion search. Everyone knows that
> using chroma planes for motion search is slow, pointless an not worth
> the effort. However, I wounldn't be me if I didn't check it myself,
> right?
> So I added chroma SAD to ME. The results are:
>  - encoding is 5..7 % slower
>  - PSNR gain for normal movies is 0.05.. 0.10 dB
>  - PSNR gain for animation and computer graphics (tested on Warcraft III
>  trailer) is 0.20dB and higher in high-motion&lots of colours.
>  - "visual quality" seems to be better - there is no big and ugly
>  colour blocks in the video (especially fast and colourful video)

i encode ONLY anime with XviD, so i'm going to test that right now.
i'm currently trying to show that XviD is better than On2vp3, even on
noisy low bitrate anime. i've just a problem with chroma blocking in
very fast movement, i hope it'll fix that.