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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:07:27PM +0100, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:35:00PM +0100, HR wrote:
> > > Matthias Czapla
> > [...]
> > > > Try http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers.php and check your 
> > > requirements.
> > > > It should give you something to investigate further.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the tip. But besides the manufacturers statement 
> > > that its device
> > > does support divx I'm asking for actual experiences of people 
> > > having tried
> > > playing AVIs produced by mencoder on such a player.
> > Yes, I figured as much - if you investigate the players suggested, you
> > can also read other peoples experiences with them. Some of them have
> > quite extensive feedback from users right there on that site, much more
> > than you'll ever get on this list.
> 
> 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

At the very least you should replace vhq with mbd=2 and add trell.
Neither uses any advanced mpeg4 features; they just cause lavc to make
smarter decisions when encoding, at the expense of speed, so you
always end up with better quality and don't hurt compatibility.

Rich