[MPlayer-users] Anyone created an AVI (XviD) using mencoder which plays on stand-alone player?

[Vijay Gill]

Hi,

I tried creating AVI files using mencoder and XviD as codec, but
cannot play them on my stand alone Philips Player DVP 630.

Most of the posts I found mentioned about OpenDML which caused
problems. So I opened one of my AVI's in VistualDub and saved it in
old AVI format, but still no joy.

When I hit the play button on my player, the player seems to jump 3-4
seconds at a time in the file but nothing appears on the screen. Then
it goes back to menu showing list of files as if the last file was
played successfully.

I am using following profile for mencoder is given at the end of this
mail, and I have put it in .mplayer/mencoder.conf in my home
directory.

The versions of various components of my set up are:
mplayer: latest SVN
XviD: 1.1
OS: Fedora Core 5 (with latest updates but running on kernel
2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 as it is most stable for me)


Source files are mpeg2 files recorded using MythTV 0.20 + PVR 350. The
version of ivtv driver is 0.70.

And lastly, the files play without any problem on my Linux and Windows
machines (with XviD codec installed).

Vijay

[xvid]
profile-desc="Parameters for all XviD encodings"
ovc=xvid=yes
xvidencopts=me_quality=6:max_bframes=2:hq_ac=1:trellis=1:quant_type=mpeg:vhq=4:bvhq=1:chroma_opt=1:aspect=4.0/3.0:par=pal43:bitrate=-153600
vf=scale=512:384