[MPlayer-users] Re: Mencoded AVIs are not playable under windows

[Corey Hickey]

guardian at skip.cz wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
>> I am just using the standard bitrate:
>> mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq -o <output
>> file> <input file>
>> The codec that my friends are using to play the video is the standard
>> free divx from divx.com.
>> Charles
> 
> 
> Hhhmmmmmm.....nothing special.......I am using following multipass formula:
> mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -aid 128 -o frameno.avi -ovc 
> frameno vts_07_1.vob
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1:vbitrate=1500:vhq:v4mv -vop scale -zoom -xy 720 
> vts_07_1.vob
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2:vbitrate=1500:vhq:v4mv -vop scale -zoom -xy 720 
> vts_07_1.vob
> 
> Maybe i have here some parameters, who makes this uncompatibility with 
> Windows players.....
> I will try reduce these parameters to be "minimalistics"......here is 
> maybe way. Thanks for forwarding my mind process. (-:
> 

Without personally being able to say anything definite about your
encoding options, I would recommend that you use the ffdshow codec
package with windows. DivX 5 doesn't support nearly as many mpeg-4
features as libavcodec does, and can have problems decoding.

-Corey