[Ffmpeg-devel] XviD support

[Gary Corcoran]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 05:33:16PM -0400, Gary Corcoran wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> FFmpeg includes an MPEG-4 encoder.

But would the output play on hardware DVD players, such as the Philips 642,
that support Xvid?  Or is it simply a matter of changing the FourCC to Xvid?

> As an alternative transcoder that supports multiple MPEG-4
> implementations, MEncoder could do the job.

Okay...

Gary