[MPlayer-users] Best mac / windows format?

[Nico Sabbi]

Vadim Garber wrote:

> I'm trying to upload a standard video format on the web for mac and 
> windows users, so they can download and view without much hassle. The 
> mac users would have quicktime installed, and the windows users would 
> have windows media player installed. No divx, no xvid. So I'm guessing 
> I'll need some very standard (mpeg2?) format. My issue is that I've 
> tried mpeg2video / mp2 for video / audio, and could only get it to 
> play on one mac (via quicktime), but there was no sound. In windows 
> WMP could not locate codecs.
>
> My current line:
> mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video -oac lavc -lavcopts 
> acodec=mp2 in.mpg -o out.mpg is what I've tried.
>

this will generate an avi with a .mpg extension; moreover the encoding 
options are very basic,
so quality will probably suck until you fine-tune them; in every case 
the most widespread
format is mpeg1, not mpeg2