How can I maximize video quality of SMplayer?

I use Smplayer and I was wondering whether there is some sort of recommended codec and/or setup for smplayer to maximize the quality of videos

smplayer uses mplayer for its engine so any quality/video codec things would be done through mplayer. i use mplayer-vdpau-nogui package, which has alpha/beta/whatever support mplayer has for vdpau (for nvidia cards primarily). i use the standard PKGBUILD with some omissions (the remote control, and other things i dont need). this package is also svn, so you get the latest trunk source. then use the pkgbuild for smplayer-svn to keep any changes smplayer made concurrent to the svn version of mplayer. i get successful builds usually every couple of weeks (though i only build it every couple of weeks, you can do it daily if you want).
then if you want more details on what you need, you can check out what codecs and such you can do by going into src and doing ./configure --help to see what options list the codecs available to build, and what libraries you would need for them.
the mplayer webpage can help you with the build options.
Last edited by toxygen (2010-01-28 22:59:37)

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