[MEncoder-users] mencoder -> x264 ?

[Grozdan]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Bob Tennent <rdtennent at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using
>
> mencoder $FILE.mpg -o $FILE.mp4 -oac mp3lame -ovc x264

This will not create an mp4 file, regardless if you give it an mp4
extension or not. It'll be plain avi with an mp4 extension. If you
want true mp4, use -of lavf with mencoder and encode without b-frames
(as mencoder is broken when using b-frames with the lavf muxer).
Better yet, encode to avi (or raw) and use mp4box from gpac to mux
into mp4

>
> to compress output from a TV capture card. But the mplayer package on my
> system has just been updated from
>
> mplayer-1.0-74_snap20100403.fc12
>
> to
>
> mplayer-1.0-76_snap20100619.fc12
>
> and now x264 is not listed by mencoder -ovc help. Was the binary package
> not built correctly or has x264 been deprecated? What should I use
> instead?

Deprecated? Are you joking? x264 is the only open source H.264 encoder
in existence and is very much alive and actively developed... So no,
it's absolutely not deprecated. Your problem is that the packager has
not built mplayer with libx264 support thus it won't show up in -ovc
help. Either bug the packager to correct his silly mistake or download
x264 from git and mplayer from svn and compile them yourself

>
> Bob T.
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