[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] Since 1.0pre7, DivX encoded by...

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 05 July 2005 at 16:43, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> We're getting a very frequently question lately, so it's time for a
> new FAQ entry.
> 
> Any comment welcome.
> 
> <qandaentry>
> <question><para>Since 1.0pre7, DivX encoded by
> <application>MPlayer</application> can't be watched on third party
> players because it uses the FMP4 FourCC.

I'm unsure about the use of 'the' in the above.

> </para></question>
> 
> <answer><para>
> <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>, the native MPEG-4
> encoding library used by <application>MEncoder</application> used to set
> the 'DIVX' FourCC (which is an AVI tag to identify the software used to
> encode and the intended software to use for decoding) for encoding MPEG-4
> videos, which leaded to make many people think that

Past Simple of 'lead' is 'lead'.

> <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> was a DivX encoding
> library, when in fact it is just another MPEG-4 encoding library

> which supports much better that norm than DivX.

... whose MPEG-4 support is much better than DivX's.

> Therefore, the new default FourCC used by
> <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> is 'FMP4', but you
> may override this behaviour using

I think we're using AmE spelling in the docs (behavior).

> <application>MEncoder</application>'s <option>-ffourcc</option>.
> You may also fix existing files like this:
> <screen>
>   mencoder <replaceable>input.avi</replaceable> -o
> <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable> -ffourcc DIVX
> </screen>
> </para></answer>
> </qandaentry>

Mostly OK otherwise.

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