[MEncoder-users] How to define DivX version

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 03 June 2005 at 17:07, oleg dov wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleynik Phil <Oleynik.Phil at mail.ioffe.ru>
> To: oleg dov <oleg_d at bk.ru>,MEncoder usage discussions <mencoder-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:23:20 +0400
> Subject: Re: [MEncoder-users] How to define DivX version
> 
> > 
> > oleg dov wrote:
> > 
> > >I already tried some parameters, but no good results. Peoples found
> > >out that for this DVD-player need to use such version of codec. I use
> > >mencoder with -ovc lavc - as I know it's libavcodec codec, but it
> > >didn't help.
> > >And enother question - if I will setup divx 5.1, which file I should
> > >set for "codecs-file" option?
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/
> > You probably cannot setup 5.1, only 5.0.5...
> > I do not know what to do if you have only w32 .dll or .ax file.
> > 
> I installed divx 5.1.1 There are following codec files that I has found:
> divxa32.acm
> divxdec.ax
> divx.dll
> divxdec_0407.dll
> divxdec_040c.dll
> divxdec_0411.dll
> How I should use it?

For encoding? You can't. You need a Linux version. But why use
closed-source binary crap when there are better open-source solutions?
Just try encoding with libavcodec's mpeg4 using only the basic options and
set fourcc to "DIVX" or "DX50" or whatever it is your DVD player needs.

R.

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