[MEncoder-users] Playing mencoder encoder movie in other players

[Corey Hickey]

Abu Zaher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i know this is a simple problem, but i cant get a way around it:
> 
> I have ripped a dvd which sizes about 1.34 GB with xvid coidec and
> -ffoucc DX50 option, the file obvious plays fine with mplayer, but
> when i try 2 play it on windows no other player can play this file. i
> have both divx and ffdshow codec installed. So i think any player
> should be able 2 play that file
> 
> To my surprise, when i encode the movie with a lower bitrate 2 make
> that a 700MB file with same options (-ovc xvid and -ffourcc DX50) the
> file plays fine, even with the "DIVX Player".
> 
> At this point my guees is that for some reason any file more than 1GB
> is not playable with other player in my pc, What's wrong? Have anybody
> encountered the same type of problem?
> 
> i am using the MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre7.exe at this moment.

I don't know what's wrong, but pre7 is very old. Please try with pre8 or
latest SVN. Download links for pre8 are listed on the mplayer website.

-Corey