[MPlayer-users] standalone DVD-player that plays mencoded AVIs

[Matthias Czapla]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:34:31PM +0100, HR wrote:
> > Matthias Czapla
> [...]
> > Im not too deep into the topic of encoding, I usually just do 
> > something like
> > mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> > vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=xxx:vpass=1
> > -vop scale=x:y,crop=x:y:a:b inputfile
> > On the site you mentioned they give detailed reports about 
> > playing Divx 3, 4
> > and 5 but I dont know if this is in any way relating to the 
> > mpeg4 mencoder
> > produces :|
> lavc mpeg4 *is* divx 4/5 (see man page), so there is no decoding
> difference unless you specify advanced MPEG4 options. In which case

Ah, ok.

> there's still no difference, because AFAIK any codec capable of decoding
> divx 5 has decoded my lavc mpeg4 encodings. At least all codecs I've
> ever used. (Again, unless you start using the most advanced lavc
> options, in which case I wouldn't guarantee that all divx 5 capable
> codecs can decode it,

I think I dont.

> but this is not relevant, since I bet no
> standalone player would play it either.) Since lavc mpeg4 doesn't make
> divx 3 material, you can ignore anything that's said about it. In case
> it's interesting though (for (older) material made by others, for
> example), it seems far the most basic and common divx support in
> standalone players is div3. Maybe divx 3 doesn't even have any features
> available that a standalone player doesn't understand. Of this I have no
> idea, because I never use div3.

So I can just go for any Divx 4/5 capable player. Thanks for the
clarification.

Regards
Matthias