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What do the smoothness and crispness settings do?

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What do the smoothness and crispness settings do?

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The smoothness refers to framerate, how smoothly the video plays back. In low bitrate movies the mpeg-4 codec gives you the option to preserve the smoothness of playback in favor of picture quality. This is the reason why frames are not dropped so much at low crispiness settings, because motion is considered more vital than picture detail. This is also the reason why MS streaming .asf files use default 75% smoothness, because motion compensates for detail loss in terms of viewability. Conversely, the crispiness is to do with sharpness and keeping detail. At 100% crispiness a movie will favor keeping higher quality sharp images and loose unnecessary frames making a less smooth playback. Because most DivX movies use a comparatively high bitrate there is no real difference between high crispiness or high smoothness because the bitrate can cope. With the Fast Motion codec the bitrate will often drop very low indeed. If you keep crispiness too high you could easily end up with dropped frame

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