[MEncoder-users] A few questions

[GN]

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 19:09, Misha Valera wrote:
> Thank you very much Dominik.... so 32-bit windows codecs don't work with a
> 64-bit mplayer?

No because they are incompatible with this architecture

> I'm only interested in encoding to lavc FMP4/DivX format 
> and maybe Xvid with MP3 audio. 

That's not a problem then, you won't need the windows codecs to encode to lavc 
or Xvid

> Also where can I 
> find good documentation about the options supported in MEncoder for
> encoding?.... Sorry for all these stupid questions

There is great documentation available for mplayer in the source package. I 
suggest you download the source and read it. Also do read the man page, which 
again is full of documentations and a few examples

>
> 2007/7/18, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org>:
> > On Wednesday, 18 July 2007 at 16:46, Misha Valera wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm currently using Debian Stable 64-bit and I was wondering if the
> > > MPlayer/MEncoder code is actually ported to this architecture to take
> > > advantages of it. I'm not talking about compiler flags or CPU
> >
> > optimizations
> >
> > > in general, rather about the actual C code in MPlayer/MEncoder. How
> > > many
> >
> > of
> >
> > > it is actually ported to the 64-bit architecture.
> >
> > I'd say all of it. MPlayer has been 64bit-clean for a long time now.
> >
> > > Further, are there any benefits in using a 64-bit compiled MEncoder
> >
> > instead
> >
> > > of the 32-bit compiled one on a 64-bit architecture? Sorry for me being
> >
> > such
> >
> > > a noob but I'm just starting to use MEncoder for encoding....
> >
> > Well if you don't need some of the binary-only 32bit codecs then I'd say
> > use the 64bit version. It should be at least as fast as the 32bit code.
> >
> > Regards,
> > R.
> >
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