[MEncoder-users] Mencoder and AVI headers

[Pasquale Federico Zema]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Rich Felker wrote:

> XVID is a much better choice. DX50 and DIVX both have trademark issues 
> and the only reason to use them would be to work with idiotic settop 
> boxes that don't support XVID.

Hi,
 I tried with DIVX and it worked. Great!

I'll try XVID and switch definitely to it if it works.

What is the difference among them? A different 4cc implies different 
routines being used for decoding?

 Regards
 Federico