[MPlayer-users] Encoding (DivX) (able to play on Windows?)

[Giacomo Comes]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:43:41PM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I encoded a video with MEncoder (using lavc).  I can play the video fine with 
> mplayer.  However, when I boot into Windows and try to open the file with the 
> DivX official player I'm unable to do so. (it won't recognize the codec).  I 
> thought that divx and lavc were mpeg4 encoders... just different 
> implementations.
> 
> I want to encode some files here on Linux and I want to send them to 2 friends 
> who have DivX in Windows. Any ideas?
> 
> I"m still learning about digital video (codecs, formats, etc...).
> 
> This is the line I used to encode:
> 
> mencoder /home/jorge/stage/VOLUME_IDENTIFIER1.vob  -alang English   -info 
> srcform="ripped by jorge" -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=64  -ovc lavc 
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:v4mv:vqmin=2:vbitrate=1772 -vf 
> pp=de,crop=0:0:0:0,scale=414:-2    -o  /home/jorge/myFile.avi

add -ffourcc DX50

Giacomo