[MPlayer-users] Re: XviD support fading out?

[Ralph Slooten]

So what would be your advise regarding encoding/re-encoding DivX films in
the future ~ libavicodec ? I need something to work on here, as I like to
make scripts to make my life easier and so on. There is always the
divx4linux, however it seems to me that it is so outdated it should be
forgotten, and that libavcodec/xvidcore seem to have picked up where it
left off.

So I'm guessing that the libavcodec would be the right choice, or do you 
have any other suggestions?


Oh, and btw: any idea how encoding speeds and quality compare with xvidcore 
and libavcodec?

Greetings
Ralph


On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Arpi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > > > Not too sure if I missed something somewhere, but it seems to be
> > > > that mencoder does not seem to be supporting the xvidcore properly
> > > > anymore. I
> 
> no, we did no such changes, we still support xvid, but...
> they don't maintain compatibility with itself, don't develop (of at least
> bugfix) the decoder, and being GPL is still just a dream (and promise)...
> 
> the first planned pre-release date of new mplayer is 20. april, but i doubt
> that we will include xvid in this release, as we planned earlier.
> (i also doubt we well even make pre-release at the planned date...)
> 
> also, in the last month libavcodec was improved a lot, it is even better
> than xvid now in encoding too (for decoding it was always superior to xvid
> and even divx4/5), so we'll include libavcodec as we did in 0.60 too
> 
> but, again, we won't remove xvid support, especially as it's the same as
> divx4linux (htey use teh same interface so it's transparent for us if user
> choose divx4linux or xvid). if xvid doesn't work, report it as a bug to teh
> xvid developers.
> 
> i like the xvid project, but they are a way too slow :(
> 
> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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