[MEncoder-users] Mencoded divx won't play on standalone player

[Michael Holland]

Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Monday 05 June 2006 05:03, Markus wrote:
> 
>>  mencoder dvd://1 -aid 128 -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
>> vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1200:vpass=1 -vop scale -zoom -xy 800  -oac 
>> mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128  -o Dogville.avi

800 pixels is too big for the hardware decoder chips.
You need to keep it to 720 x 576 pixels max.
Some cheap players ignore the aspect ratio, and assume square pixels,
so you need to scale down vertically. e.g. 720 x 405 lines for 16:9.
See the autoaspect option.  It it doesn't work, "-vf scale=:-2" will help.

> 
> Try add -ffourcc DIVX

Yeah, that too.
Why was the default changed for this? It breaks a lot of (most?) 
standalone players.