[MPlayer-users] How to encode with older codecs?

[Martin Collins]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:35:46 +0200 (CEST)
"Fabio S." <fast at ferrara.linux.it> wrote:

> vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=3000:vpass=2:vhq:mbd=2

vhq is redundant here, mbd=2 supercedes it.
 
> Now I updated my pc and I have a new version of mplayer
> (1.0pre7-3.4.3). I used the same old command to produce a new avi
> and everything was ok. The problem is that the new avi is no longer
> compatible with my dvd/divx palyer

The fourcc has been changed and your player doesn't recognise it.
Use -ffourcc DIVX

Martin