[MPlayer-advusers] bitstream codec version information not passed on with mencoder?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 24 August 2005 at 21:06, compn wrote:
> this was a user in #mplayer who had this problem:
> 
> I've transcoded a show from a NTSC DVD to a 512x384 xvid file
> (max_bframes=1:nogmc:noqpel), but I can't play it back on my standalone
> DVD player. opening the video with avidemux2 and then saving it again (copy/copy)
> makes the files playable on that player. a friend tells me it's because of the
> lack of tags on the original video, which are present in the file output by
> avidemux2: "inside data / metadata there should be [USER] XviD0039 or XviD0038"
> 
> Thomson DTH8045 it's a DVD-Recorder
> 
> <skamp-> I'm using mplayer CVS from 2005/08/13 and xvid 1.1.0 beta 2 for encoding
> <skamp-> avidemux2 v. 2.0.42 (http://avidemux.berlios.de/)
> 
> http://xmm.sourceforge.net/DivX5-6_Xvid_Bitstream_version.php
> 
> lists the bitstream codec version, does any of this get into mencoder?
> can it?

man mplayer
/-info
       -info <option1:option2:...> (AVI only)
              Specify the info header of the resulting AVI file.

HTH,
R.

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