[MEncoder-users] What happened to divx?

[The Wanderer]

Pete Davis wrote:

>> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

>>> a simple ML search would have given you the answer. use the
>>> option "-fourcc"
>> 
>> Correction: that's "-ffourcc", shorthand for "force fourcc". This
>> is also in the man page. Mind that to the best of my awareness
>> fourccs are case-sensitive; if the arrangement you were using
>> before was giving you "DivX" or "DIVX", you won't necessarily get
>> the same results if you specify "-ffourcc Divx".
> 
> Okay, well not that it's a huge deal, but it's just one more
> parameter in a long list of them. I guess my question is, why did it
> change between pre6 and pre7?

As I remember the discussion, because FFmpeg/libavcodec's MPEG-4 is not
actually the same thing as DivX's MPEG-4 (and even where they are
compatible, perpetuating the "MPEG-4 and DivX are different names for
the same thing" falsity is a bad idea), and it was decided to give
FFmpeg's MPEG-4 its own fourcc.

> I guess I was just kind of surprised because my scripts that worked
> just fine in pre6 are suddenly causing me headaches in pre7.
> 
> Is there any way to set the default?

Not that I'm aware of - other than putting "ffourcc=DivX" or the like in
your MEncoder config file (and I'm actually not sure where that file
would be located).


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