[MEncoder-users] MEncoder using x264 DEV-CVS builds (Windows)

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:34:59AM -0800, David A. wrote:
> I am trying this tool for last to days, it looks a lot better than other with big GUIs. I still would like to find out few things:
> 1. I noticed that latest version doesn't support x264 encoding on Windows. But there are some other builds like: "MEncoder dev-CVS-060515-06:00-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team" which supports x264 encoding on Windows platform. Where I could get the latest build from dec-CVS?

You could try my preliminary build:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/~reimar/MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1.zip
and tell me if it works right.

> 2. Next one, if I am using x264 encoding, do I need something else?... Maybe x264.exe?

no.

> 3. Can Mencoder use MKV container as  output.

-of lavf, but in many cases it will not work right. Just using AVI and
if necessary using mkvmerge afterwards is advisable.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger