[MPlayer-users] mencoder: creates unusual AVI?

[Thomas Ruedas]

Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Thomas Ruedas <ruedas <at> dtm.ciw.edu> writes:
> This command line probably creates a file that cannot be played by many players
> (jpg in avi).
Would a different image format work with avi?
> I don't know quicktime well, but I am not surprised it does not play mpeg4 in
> avi (it probably expects mov/mp4 container).
Turns out that rc2 doesn't seem to support mp4 at all, and the MPEG2 to 
which it switches by default gives a horrible quality.
> Either compile latest svn or try ffmpeg - rc2 is definitely unsupported.
I'll probably have to make another effort at compiling ffmpeg, the 
download from Darwinports is broken (problem with x264).
Thanks anyway,
Thomas
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