[Caldor]

frogular currently with the bug, i think youll find quality to be better with pp turned off.

[plasmacutter]

mplayer's default video filters which come with the source work quite well on on the mplayer cvs builds I use on macos X.

i'll use this setting for standard divx/xvids
-vf pp=default/tmpnoise:1:2:3 -autoq 20

and even though all the existing pp filters for xvid don't work with h.264 I find this setting works very well for h.264 streams.

-vf hqdn3d=6:4:8,scale

I would love to be able to enter and save a line such as the two examples above as a default setting.

I've heard about a bug in xbmc's postprocessing which causes some problems. i'm wandering if this would work though as part of the main source of mplayer?

[kraqh3d]

xbmc's pp filters are mplayer's pp filters. and you can do that. you can make a .conf file that matches the filename and put any mplayer switches you want in it.

[plasmacutter]

xbmc's pp filters are mplayer's pp filters. and you can do that. you can make a .conf file that matches the filename and put any mplayer switches you want in it.

really now? a default.xbe.conf? or is it XBMC.conf?

[kraqh3d]

full filename, including extension, with .conf appended. and the format of the switches is a little different:

-vf pp=default/tmpnoise:1:2:3 -autoq 20

would be:

vf=pp=default/tmpnoise:1:2:3
autoq=20

[elupus]

avoid any autoquality, it missbehaves at times.

[arnova]

The documentation of XBMC is not really clear whether Automatic Postprocessing is enabled by default, and what it means in practice:
- Is the auto(matic) postprocessing comparable to ffdshow "automatic quality control". Which means that deblocking/deringing is automatically throtled according to the cpu usage?
- Does auto postprocessing imply the use of both deringing and V/H deblocking?
- What kind of deblocking algoritm does XBMC use? Mplayer's accurate deblocking? (which is quite nice IMHO when used with ffdshow)

[jmarshall]

It's not enabled by default.

And we've had mixed results in the past which is why it's not enabled by default.

Feel free to play around with it - you can also set mplayer stuff via mplayer.conf.