mencoder

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Sat Jun 17 14:12:47 EDT 2006


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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