[MPlayer-users] Mencoded Xvid AVIs are not playable......SOLVED!

[Corey Hickey]

guardian at skip.cz wrote:
> Yes - thats it! When i am under windows testing (using) ffdshow codec,
> the lavc-Divx-MPEG4 videos are now playable without player-shutdown and
> without random 5-seconds-long video fragmentation. (theres a small cosmetic
> bug - in the right-bellow ((in the black picture area)) is flashing 5
> centimeters long green rectangle....but its only cosmetic defect).

You say "black picture area" here and in your first mail, and I noticed
your command lines don't involve any cropping. You really should crop
out the _entire_ black bands, as well as any fuzziness, and then scale
appropriately to maintain aspect ratio and make both dimensions a
multiple of 16. You'll get much better quality that way.

-vf crop=width:height:xposition:yposition,scale=width:height

Better yet, just read DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt

I can't answer the rest of your problems, though.

-Corey