[MPlayer-users] playing dixv encoded files in windows

[RC]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:15:21 -0400
D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> Anyway, IMO the bug is not a bug in mencoder, rather it's a bug in the
> idiotic mpeg2-in-avi playback code in mplayer. 

Strange, then, that older version of mencoder were doing a good job of
working around this problem.

> Note that no other
> players support this nonstandard wrapping, or if they do (maybe ffplay
> does..?) they should accept it just fine.

Yes, it does seem to work with ffplay.

I would be more than happy to output mpeg1/2 video to an MPEG file
instead of AVI, but mencoder is strongly AVI-based, and the MPEG muxer
is rather limited.

Maybe I should be using ffmpeg instead  :-)