[MPlayer-users] encoding mpegs for windows users

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:18:32PM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> DRFI>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> DRFI>On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:54:59PM +0200, Karl Ewald wrote:
> DRFI>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> DRFI>> Hi Chris,
> DRFI>> 
> DRFI>> I found that by choosing vcodec=msmpeg4v2 and mp3 audio, the resulting AVI
> DRFI>> will play with WMP out of the box on NT4 through winxp, using just the
> DRFI>> codecs supplied with the OS. 
> DRFI>
> DRFI>AFAIK this is true, but users should be aware that msmpeg4v2 is less
> DRFI>featureful then real mpeg4 and thus will give lower quality at the
> DRFI>same bitrate.
> 
> ... And it doesn't store mplayer aspect tag. Well, since it's mplayer
> proprietary, no big deal...

Are you trolling or just ignorant?? There is no such thing as an
"mplayer proprietary" aspect tag. It's part of the mpeg4 standard. BTW
your comment was completely irrelevant since someone encoding files to
play on an out-of-the-box windows system would not be using stuff not
supported by WMP.

Rich