[MPlayer-users] mencoder best web video codec

[marco at metm.org]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:16:38AM -0700, rcooley wrote:
> > It seems on first glance that sox doesn't make mpeg1-layer1/2 audio
> > either.  
> You'll want toolame, ffmpeg, or maybe even mp3encode.
> 
> > Any idea on the portability status of avi containers?
> Let's just say you'll be better off in many ways, using an mpeg
> container, rather than avi.  Better support for MPEG1 video/audio. 
> More tolerant to damage.  Better container overall.
> 
> Once you've got video and audio, you could use a program like mplex to
> make them into an mpeg file.

Great thanks for the info.  I am thinking of offering two
possibilities for download: 
 -- mpeg4s with links to xvid and ffmpeg codec download pages
 -- and mpeg1 with mpeg1-layer2 audio made with mplex.  (I guess I made
 an mpeg1 with mp3 audio which did not work.)

I am still curious about the H263 codec though, as it seems to be quite
widely implemented.  Gnome-meeting uses it I believe, and the quality to
size ratio of the compressions I made were quite impressive (not much
movement in the images).  Any way of wrapping that up in an mpeg
container to get audio, perhaps I should be asking on an mplex list
somewhere? 

-- 
Marco