[MEncoder-users] Mencoder and AVI headers

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:35:49PM -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:25:36PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > Pasquale Federico Zema wrote:
> > 
> > >On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > >
> > >>very likely xine doesn't recognize the new FMP4 fourcc assigned to 
> > >>lavc's mpeg4
> > >
> > >Hi,
> > >if this is the case, does it mean that I can solve the problem just 
> > >playing with the -ffourcc option? Which value could I use?
> > >
> > >Thanks a looot!
> > >Federico
> > >
> > yes, "xvid"
> 
> Although "xvid" could work, I remember a thread where
> was suggested "DX50" as a better fourcc option for
> libavcodec as alternative to FMP4.

XVID is a much better choice. DX50 and DIVX both have trademark issues
and the only reason to use them would be to work with idiotic settop
boxes that don't support XVID.

Rich