[Ffmpeg-devel] XviD support

[Mike Melanson]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 9/19/06, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
>> Gary Corcoran wrote:
>> > 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?
>>
>> Perhaps, probably in conjunction which configuring the encoding
>> constraints within certain parameters that the hardware can handle.
> 
> And this is already supported!
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-xvid.html#menc-feat-xvid-encoding-profiles 
> 
> 
> Rejoice my friends!

I look forward to the day when I finally get around to transcoding video 
for playback on an iRiver u10 device that I have had sitting unused for 
months. I was impressed when I checked the Wikipedia page for the device 
and found Mencoder encoding parameters specifically for the device.

-- 
	-Mike Melanson