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Old 18-05-2004, 10:53   #21
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Re: BBC & Realplayer

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Originally Posted by towny
The last time I had a chance to view the same piece of video, encoded at the same bitrate, playing simultaneously on WMP and RealOne, side by side on my PC screen at work, I found the Real video to be noticeably better, with sharper contrast and brighter colours. The WMP video was muddy by comparison.

I'm curious what you base your opinion on - have you experimented with it in this way?
I'll second that, I've watched movies I've encoded at the same bit rates in RM, Divx and Xvid, the RM quality was noticably better.
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