[MPlayer-cygwin] mpeg4 with MPlayer v1.0pre7 source

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 06:24:48PM -0500, Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:55:39PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 
> > FFmpeg changed the default fourcc for MPEG-4 to FMP4.  I think the
> > option to control this is -ffourcc.
> 
> By the way, I
> do not understand this change in lavc.  It's been a big pain for me,
> especially when an old MPlayer binary quits playing a file encoded with
> a new MEncoder.  I'm not trying to flame.  I'm sure there's some reason
> for it.  But it's never been explained to my satisfaction.

It's a short-term pain vs long-term gain thing.  Unfortunately we're
still in the short term :-/

Diego