Re: [MPlayer-users] divx 6

[Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 4/20/06, Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> > > hello
> > >
> > > is there any way to use the linux divx 6 binary codec with mencoder ?
> > > http://labs.divx.com/DivXLinuxCodec
> > No, though if someone were to add support it would be useful for testing
> > and comparison.
> >
> > In any case, you'll probably get better performance and/or quality by
> > using XviD or libavcodec MPEG-4, both of which are well-supported in
> > mencoder.
> >
> > -Corey
>
> thanks for the reply
> i know that xvid and lavc is there, but i have to use divx
> (i'm going to a programming contest this weekend and they specified
> that we need to be able to encode divx, but probably any mpeg4 encoder
> will be ok)

Interesting. What kind of a programming contest?

For best interoperability, be sure to know about the -ffourcc option. 
Many players/decoders don't recognize libavcodec's FMP4 fourcc, so using 
'-ffourcc XVID' or '-ffourcc DIVX' might be necessary.

-Corey

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