[MEncoder-users] creating Windows-compatible (?) DivX files

[Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux)]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 18:03, Harald Milz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using vdrconvert, a script collection that uses mencoder, to convert
> MPEG-TS recordings (from VDR) to Divx. This should be supported just fine,
> and MPlayer plays the DivX files just fine. The DivX player 6.7 and
> my DVD player do not - the DivX player complains "this file contains a
> track in an unknown format (code ""). You probably need to install a
> DirectShow decoder to play this video format" or similar (roughly
> translated from German - maybe the English version sounds different). The
> DVD player which supposedly plays DivX files from CD-Rs does decode the
> sound correctly but shows no picture (only the Pioneer logo -- it's a
> DV-300 if that helps).

-ffourcc DX50

>
> I tried
>
> -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4
> -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4
>
> to no avail.
>
> MPlayer says:
>
> VIDEO:  [FMP4]  768x576  24bpp  25.000 fps  889.0 kbps (108.5 kbyte/s)
> Clip info:
>  Software: MEncoder 1.0rc1-4.1.0
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
> ==========================================================================
> vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local
> display)
> Opening video filter: [lavcdeint]
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
>
> What's wrong, and how do I create files that can be played by the Windows
> DivX player (I suspect the DVD player will play these right)?
>
> I'm just trying mencoder 1.0rc2-4.1.0 (from
> http://packman.links2linux.de/package/mplayer) but I doubt if this will
> help.
>
> TIA!

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