[Ffmpeg-devel] XviD support

[Gary Corcoran]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:36:02AM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>> does XviD support for encoding make sense nowadays?  People in #ffmpeg
>>> keep asking questions about adding XviD support when all they want is
>>> MPEG-4 decoding ...
>> XviD is useful for fairly fast and high quality encoding. According to 
>> what I've seen, it takes a lot more CPU time to make lavc MPEG-4 meet or 
>> exceed XviD's quality.
> 
> I'm aware of this.
> 
>> I do not know if many ffmpeg users use XviD, though.
> 
> That's the point.  People use XviD to use XviD, not FFmpeg.
> 
>> Also, now that I think about it, lavc's xvidrc depends on XviD.
> 
> But how much sense does it make to support XviD encoding through FFmpeg?

If one wants to transcode from the myriad of video codecs that ffmpeg
supports, to Xvid, how else would you do it?

Gary