[MEncoder-users] fmp4

[Pete Davis]

> 
> 2005/7/21, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>:
> > It would be much better to use XVID
> 
> I like xvid because it is free, but my hardware player skips many
> frames in scenes with high bitrate, then, I always need to re-encode
> xvid files as divx.
> 

I have precisely the same problem.

> >(or DX50 if you insist).
> 
> This will work with lavc or I need to compile mplayer with suppoft for
> propietary divx5 codec?
> 
> >The DIVX
> > fourcc means divx4 which is only a very crappy limited subset of
> > mpeg4. That is to say, some players may choke on lavc files with DIVX
> > as their fourcc if they use any advanced features.
> 
> 1) Mainly the only thing I wanted is to continue doing what I was
> doing with previous versions. In other words, I wanted mplayer to
> continue doing what it was doing previously. Is correct to use forucc
> for this?
> 

Yes.

> 2) By using DX50 will I obtain better quality without needing to use a
> propietary shared object?
> 

My understanding is that it's just changing the 4CC header code, not the
encoding, so the quality is the same.