[MPlayer-users] Best quality universal format?...

[Paul Simpson]

Hey ignore my last comment.  I've got it working!!! :-) :-)

Thx v much for all your help Rich, Dominik and especially Steven.



Paul Simpson wrote:

>
> I can allmost taste it now.  I downloaded, compiled and installed the 
> CVS version of mplayer with the latest FFmpeg codecs just fine.  I can 
> now create .mp4 quicktime movies that do run on my PC!  However, the 2 
> second clip  plays smootly for the 1st second then stutters dropping 
> frames for the last second.  mplayer plays it just fine in linux.
>
> Any idea why this is happening?
>
> Again thanks for all your help.  I'll be summerising my efforts once 
> I've got this working.  There's a whole high-end 3d animation 
> community waiting to be able to do this... ;-)
>
> -P
>
>>     then you simply add "bit_exact" to the lavcopts line you use with
>>     mencoder:
>>
>> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:bit_exact:vbitrate=...
>>
>>     If you don't have that option then it may be necessary to build
>>     the cvs version of mencoder and ffmpeg/libavcodec.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> ..this is where I get unstuck.  output.mp4 doesn't play in quicktime 
>>> on my windows box.   
>>
>>
>>     Apple's QT player would pop up a warning about a 'corrupted file'
>>     but after dismissing the error the file would play fine.
>>
>>     I do not know exactly why the person I sent the mp4 file to had
>>     problems playing back - I suspect they didn't have the right codecs
>>     installed.
>>
>>     Steven Schultz
>>
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