mencoder

[Alex Snow]

got it working.  found some docs online that show how to do 
it...weird, as the doc says that libavcodec's mpeg4 is xvid 
compatible.
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 12:36:26PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
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> Hi Alex. Afaik Xvid is not part of Libavcodec. First, make sure your Mencoder supports Xvid by running mencoder -ovc help. In terms of all the options that can be passed to the codec for 
> encoding, open the MPlayer or mencoder manpage (seems to be the same doc), and search for xvidencopts. Hth.
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 11:17:32AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Have some realmedia videos I'm trying to reencode to xvid with mencoder.  
> > I installed MPlayer-1.0pre8 and all the windows codecs and xvid from 
> > cvs.
> > The man page says that mencoder will produce xvid-compatible video if 
> > you use the mpeg4 codec in the libavcodec library so I tried that 
> > first...but the videos don't play on a windows box with the xvid codec 
> > installed.  Next I tried encoding with the xvid library, but I can't 
> > seem to get the commandline params right...it keeps saying I need to 
> > specify a bitrate, but from reading the manpage/other docs I can't seem 
> > to figure out the right way to do that.  So has anyone gotten mencoder 
> > to produce proper xvid videos? if so how did you do it?
> > 
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