[MPlayer-DOCS] xvid encoding options

Loren Merritt lorenm at u.washington.edu
Sun Sep 26 23:03:35 CEST 2004


On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 September 2004 at 21:12, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
>> Le dim 26/09/2004 ? 20:53, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit :
>>
>>> 2. It's -ovc xvid, not -ovc xvidenc as the manpage says now.
>>
>> The manpage doesn't say such thing.
>> Though it does read:
>> NOTE: Use -ovc help to get a list of available video codecs, which
>> output is correct, at least with my cvs version.
>
> Oh, but it does. Twice, in fact.
> [...]
> CODEC SPECIFIC ENCODING OPTIONS (MENCODER ONLY)
>       You can specify codec specific encoding parameters using the following syntax:
>
>       -<codec>opts <option1[=value],option2,...>
>
>       Where <codec> may be: lavc, xvidenc, divx4, lame, x264enc
>                                   ^^^^^^^
> [...]
>   xvidenc (-xvidencopts)
>       There are three modes available: constant bitrate (CBR), fixed quantizer and 2pass.
> [...]

The options as of today's CVS are:
-ovc xvid
-xvidencopts

So the man page is correct, and -ovc help is also correct.

--Loren Merritt


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