Smooth Video Competition - Choose your Winner

Hi all

I was really impressed with the entries.

Please cast your vote on who has produced the best video.

You can download all the entries in one go from here:

http://www.sendmefile.com/00555815

Or you can download seperately from this thread:

Smooth Video Encoding Competition for M6 - CLOSING TODAY

Jmel and Version01's videos are really crappy. Zenmaster and Zepperdude's ones have audio/synch problems. BobbyQ01's isn't in a good screen size, BobbyQ02's video has awful artificial colors and an audio/synch problem. For me the better and the one is MFB's video : good size, good colors, good sound and no audio/synch problems. With which converter did you realized it, i want it now !

Hey kyotos

Check out this thread for all the details in which converters they used.

Smooth Video Encoding Competition for M6 - CLOSING TODAY

the competition was started as " Your mission: To encode the smoothest looking video". file size, audio or anything else didn't play a role, just smoothness of playback.

hi kyotos

The main reason for doing the competition is to test how far we could push the 20fps limitation on the M6.

Of course I like the picture to be good quality, but the point is to find a balance between quality/smoothness.

Audio comes second, but of course it plays a important role.

I will be doing more competitions testing other aspects of video on the M6. One of these will be a otherall video test including video and sound.

Hope this explains why I did it.

Originally Posted by kyotos

What's the interest of JUST smoothness of playback ?

like Zenmaster said, to get the best out of the 20 fps limitation of the Meizu chip. The other aspects can be tested later. I was highly interested myself in finding out what the best method is to push smoothness.
Next tasks could be colours, audio, a/v-sync, sharpness, file size, overall quality. This is an emerging process of testing, and maybe in the end we get the "perfect method".
File size is for example something I don't care sh*t about. I want the best quality no matter what.

I would like to add that it makes a huge difference if you play action scenes of a widescreen movie with black bars or a full screen movie. check it out yourself and you'll see. the chip has to do much more work in full screen, and the different used methods have totally different results when it comes to full screen.
Next competition - if you agree - should have that topic in mind.