[MEncoder-users] Mencoder and AVI headers

[Giacomo Comes]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:47:46PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:35:49PM -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:25:36PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > > Pasquale Federico Zema wrote:
> > > 
> > > >On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>very likely xine doesn't recognize the new FMP4 fourcc assigned to 
> > > >>lavc's mpeg4
> > > >
> > > >Hi,
> > > >if this is the case, does it mean that I can solve the problem just 
> > > >playing with the -ffourcc option? Which value could I use?
> > > >
> > > >Thanks a looot!
> > > >Federico
> > > >
> > > yes, "xvid"
> > 
> > Although "xvid" could work, I remember a thread where
> > was suggested "DX50" as a better fourcc option for
> > libavcodec as alternative to FMP4.
> 
> 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.

I checked the post that I was refering to.
(http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2005-March/051741.html)

you suggested XVID before DX50, but at the same time I understand that
the XVID codec on windows is sometimes buggy.

So, my conclusion was that DX50 is better.

Giacomo