[MPlayer-users] Best mac / windows format?

[Vadim Garber]

Nico Sabbi wrote:

> 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

hmm I would have never guessed. But the good news is that I was able to 
convert my existing mpeg2's down to an internet bitrate using ffmpeg. 
And so far most players have been able to play it.

Thanks,
Vadim