[MEncoder-users] MPEG4 (Simple Profile)

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi

On 3/22/06, George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu> wrote:
> My wife recently bought an Epson P2000, a portable storage device for
> copying pictures from a digital camera memory card and being able to
> view them.  We discovered that an as an added bonus, it can play
> movies.  However, getting a movie format it can play is turning out to
> be somewhat of a challenge.
>
> It basically supports two codecs: "MPEG-4 (Simple Profile)" and
> "Motion JPEG".  I managed to get mencoder to successfully make an
> mjpeg file, but it seems like it's not a really good compression
> ratio.
>
> So I'm wondering: can I pass mencoder something that will make it use
> only the "simple profile" features of mpeg4?  Can anyone give me any
> leads?

This should get you stated:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-mpeg4.html

Guillaume
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