[MPlayer-users] playing dixv encoded files in windows

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:19:31PM +0200, Ivo wrote:
> On Thursday 14 October 2004 21:55, RC wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> See:
> 
> http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2004-October/030235.html
> 
> for an experimental extended MPEG muxer. Haven't tested it myself yet, but 
> it looks promising.

yes, it looks promising.
anyway, mencoder's old mpeg muxer _is_ somewhat broken, but it will
work (i.e. a/v won't desync altho it won't be dvd or vcd compliant) as
long as you end the filter chain with harddup. without harddup, it
will desync bad if any "duplicate frame" messages appear.

rich