[MEncoder-users] mencoder interoperable formats

[Hans-Werner Braun]

> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:39:09 -0800
> Hans-Werner Braun <hwbmp at hpwren.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> > What I would like to create is a format that plays at at least 640x480
> > size in Unix (mplayer or whatever), Windows (mediaplayer), and OS X
> > (quicktime (not requiring quicktime pro)).
> 
> Either you have the users install codecs on the system (eg. Divx/Xvid
> on Windows), or you stick with very old formats like MPEG-1.

I tried MPEG-1, but it did not work in Windows. Do you know a CLI
syntax for MPEG-1 that you think will work on all platforms? I also
read that 640x480 and bigger is iffy in MPEG-1.

Hans-Werner