[MPlayer-users] My personal experience with mplayerxp Vs. regular mplayer

[James Pole]

On Thursday 04 July 2002 11:57, gabor farkas wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> i always wonder why people nowadays ( 'hack sign' has just begun in
> japan ( 2002april as i found out on the webpages )) encode into that
> microsoft divx codec... why don't at least divx4 or divx5?
>
> does anyone know a reason why is better to encode to that format?

Maybe because MS-MPEG/DivX (or whatever it's supposed to be called) is more 
widespread than divx{4,5}. If the divx{4,5} (or, even better, *real* MPEG-4) 
is more widely used, people will probally start encoding in that format.

- James

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