[MEncoder-users] creating movies from jpegs

[Pete Davis]

> 
> i keep going back and forth with this.  Now i am just donig.
> 
> mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf type=jpg -ovc lavc -nosound -o corrppmovie.avi
> 
> The docs said that if you didn't specify a codec it did mpeg4, and the
> quality is great now.  However, i cannot get it to play in quicktime
> version
> 6.4, is says no moov atom could be found.  It does play in windows media
> player though.   I must be able to play it in quicktime 6.4, because that
> is
> the last version of quicktime that came with quicktime for java, and i am
> working on a programming project where i must use quicktime for java.
> Thanks for all the help, i really appreciate it.

Try using -ffourcc xvid

You can use DIVX, DX50, or xvid. The default 4CC is FMP4, I think, which
isn't recognized by all that many players.