[MEncoder-users] xvidencopts is not an MEncoder option

[Winterbird]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 05:34:01AM +0200, Alexey wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>have there been some recent changes with mencoder? A script of mine that
>>encodes video with xvid-codec gives me an error that "xvidencopts is not
>>an MEncoder option". I checked the syntax and also tried out some older
>>version that worked 100% and they give the same error.
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>Sounds like you compiled without xvid support. Maybe you have outdated
>xvid libs that aren't supported by current version of mplayer. Look at
>the output from configure when you get ready to compile and see..
>
>Rich
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since you run gentoo, it should be enough to make sure you have xvid in
your USE flags. you may want to add mmxext too since your processor has
mmx2. so just run:

#USE="xvid mmxext" emerge -avD mplayer

and install, then it should work.