[MEncoder-users] DivX in 1.0rc1

[Joshua Crawford]

* Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> [2006-10-27 17:54 +0200]:
> On 10/27/06, Joshua Crawford <mortarn_lists at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>I've just upgraded to 1.0rc1 (from 1.0pre7try2) and now mencoder complains
>>that 'divx4' is an unknown suboption for -ovc. I have divx4linux (5.0.5)
>>installed. Any ideas why it isn't detected?
> 
> DivX support has been discontinued, as the Change log of RC1 states:
>    * removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries

That sucks :(

> Alternative solutions to do the same thing (MPEG4 encoding) are XviD
> and lavc mpeg4. The documentation has further infos on how to use them

So, I used to use 'mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc divx4 -o output.avi input.mov'
to create files with 'DX50' fourcc. What's the simplest way to do it with
the new method? I had a quick look in the docs, but only saw 2-pass
encoding.
-- 
Joshua 'bruce' Crawford ... http://www.geocities.com/mortarn

I call things as I see them. If I don't see them I make it up!
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