On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Richard Rauch wrote:

> At least under XFree86 3.3.6 (no Xv extension, I believe), the quality is
> something of a trade-off against what mplayer gives.  The picture appears
> smoother in ogle, but the contrast is lower (and/or the value of each
> color is lower).  As a result, black comes out as somewhat washed-out as
> dark grey, rather than black.

If you have the cycles to spare, you can get a very smooth picture
from "mplayer" by applying the post-processing filters, e.g. "mplayer
-vop pp -npp de".

Frederick