Postprocessing Settings in Divx 5.02

[DeVNuLL]

I'm trying to find out if adjusting the Divx 5.02 Postprocessing Settings will actually help the overal quality for playback of a Divx?

I don't really know what they should be set at... I just thought this was mostly for lower end CPU's that may need to have the quality ajusted so the video won't skip, or something like that.

Any info would be great....

Thank you,

Devnull

[junglemike]

Postprocessing is trying to encrease quality for already enceded video. Mostly it works good for bad q-ty movies. It makes picture to look better, for example you won't see these "blocks" and other things like that. But don't txpect fromt this too much.
Applying postprocessing takes more CPU usage, but if you have 500mhz + you shouldn't worry about tahat and put it on maximum. When i watched Divx on Celeron 266(no cache) I was able to watch most movies only without postprocessing. If you see that video goes slowly than audio (you have desynchronization) and you know that the file itself is OK, that it probably your cpu cannot keep up with post-processing. Turn it off.

[DeVNuLL]

Ok... cool, I've got a 1200 Mhz AMD T-Bird... so I'm going to crank it to the max.

Thanks

[BoNz1]

IMHO post-processing is to fix poorly encoded video, ie blockiness. If your video is encoded properly then you don't need it, in fact it may look worse with it. But that is just me, some people actually probably most crank it all the way up, I always watch with no post-processing on a p4 1.8ghz and a p4 1.6ghz.

[manono]

Hi-

I'm with BoNz1. If you did it right in the first place, you don't need post processing. If you use the DivX5 decoder, the film effect can be interesting (although I don't use that either), but all the quality slider does is smooth everything.

[theReal]

For HQ encodes I mostly use medium post processing settings.
For less quality stuff I sometimes set it to one or two higher. I try to avoid the two highest settings though. Mostly you'll get better results for LQ Divx videos if you set the screen resolution to 640x480, leave the post-processing at medium and enable the film-effect at 50% or 75%.


btw my sys. is an Athlon XP1900+@2000+ (140FSB), 512MB DDR - so I could easily set everything to highest without maxing out the system. But it just looks worse!