[MEncoder-users] fmp4

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 7/21/05, Alejandro Vargas <alejandro.anv at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am compressing videos in the same way I used to do with previous
> versions, but the resulting avis are not playable now in my hardware
> divx player. The difference is that now -oac vcodec=mpeg4 produces avi
> with FMP4 as video codec reather than the DIVX that was produced by
> previous versions.
> 
> I'm using MEncoder 1.0pre7-3.4.1 built by PLF and a test file made with
> 
> mencoder input.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o
> test.avi -endpos 10
> 
> Produces an avi file that with mplayer -identify reports this:
> 
> ID_FILENAME=test.avi
> ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=FMP4
> 
> Checking avis made with previous versions they reports ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=DIVX
> 
> My hardware divx player only plays the audio when fotmat is FMP4. ¿Is
> there a switch for instructing mplayer to produce DIVX instead of FMP4
> or any other solution?

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