[MEncoder-users] question about codecs

[vpupkin at comcast.net]

hi there,

I'm trying to use mencoder on ubuntu (MEncoder 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13+medibuntu1 / MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3) to encode some video but it exits with an error:

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Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x66766478.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
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I can easily overcome this by specifying "-vc +ffmpeg12" (I know that video is mpeg2)

mencoder detects everything about the file:

Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 0
[mov] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [xdvf]  1920x1080  24bpp  29.970 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:7  fourcc:0x66766478  size:1920x1080  fps:29.97  ftime:=0.0334

but it doesn't know anything about "xdvf"

I tried to customize codecs.conf and describe "xdvf" but mencoder complains (using codecs.conf from svn):

"This codecs.conf is too old and incompatible with this MPlayer release! at line 6"

where should I describe [xdvf] format and which codecs mencoder should use?

thanks

--Alex