[MEncoder-users] DivX in 1.0rc1

[RC]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:08:24 -0400
The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:

> There's no real advantage to using DivX instead of the
> other, more free MPEG-4 encoders.

Legality...  They've secured licensing on the MPEG4 patents, while Xvid
and libavcodec obviously haven't.

> If you don't provide additional encoding options (using '-lavcopts
> <options>' or '-xvidencopts <options>') the quality will be more or
> less terrible - 

Just lavc.  Xvid has good defaults.  I have no idea about divx4.