[MPlayer-users] mplayer with old xvidcore

[Jozef Riha]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Jozef Riha <jose1711 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm not saying xvid encoder is better than ffmpeg's encoder but for
>> some reason my teac portable player (teac mp-280, 4 gb) seems to
>> exclusively read files encoded with xvidcore 1.1.0.
>
> There are quite a few options listed in the MPlayer manual that affect MPEG-4
> ASP. One of them will probably make your video play. (You may check the XVID
> Changelog to speed that research up.)
> If not, there are even more options in the FFmpeg documentation.
>
> Carl Eugen

while reading documentation and testing out seems like a reasonable
advice i ended up using --enable-static with old xvidcore installed
temporarily over the most recent version.

thank you,

jose