[MEncoder-users] DivX in 1.0rc1

[Joshua Crawford]

* The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> [2006-10-28 10:08 -0400]:
> Joshua Crawford wrote:
>>* Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> [2006-10-27 17:54 +0200]:
>>
>>>On 10/27/06, Joshua Crawford <mortarn_lists at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've just upgraded to 1.0rc1 (from 1.0pre7try2) and now mencoder
>>>>complains that 'divx4' is an unknown suboption for -ovc. I have
>>>>divx4linux (5.0.5) installed. Any ideas why it isn't detected?
>>>
>>>DivX support has been discontinued, as the Change log of RC1
>>>states:
>>>    * removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries
>>
>>That sucks :(
> 
> Not particularly. There's no real advantage to using DivX instead of the
> other, more free MPEG-4 encoders.

Will you be stripping support for other codecs from mencoder as well?

This seems a step backwards, and in that spirit I'm downloading 1.0pre8,
which I somehow missed when it was released.

Perhaps there could be a '--with-divx4linux' configure option.
-- 
Joshua 'bruce' Crawford ... http://www.geocities.com/mortarn
Listening to: Slackerpedia Galactica - Show Number One

"Too much of a good thing is wonderful." -- Mae West
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mencoder-users/attachments/20061029/dcd47673/attachment.pgp>