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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > 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? > > > > -- > > Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment. > > -- seen in a posting in comp.software.testing > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > For an IRC experience without all the clutter, check out BOFHNet at irc.bofhnet.us. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIVAwUBRJQviqe2pgKIdGq4AQoCjQ//btmuV7H/0yIqJhakX7U4FTwdvTbYcFjv > 1GHDjMzprG3b6D2jE6jYRLSA5x6iXRTMZsjsZAzgszeG7AzXsIABRvuYeISZocPG > Kzzn/FeZF2S39vU/NHFQP/BJYDNDxp3B6D5XanXy6rn1EzfhQSyC/Ik3dQRS6nTu > tmK+P1Sb2fwpWEKdnwGCeOyODUS48/DcqYlFbs3qI4GwHAy6wCaLmu3iuWo+tPZ6 > tCyN41XgPjroHTBzzxI+lKA/DikihV0NwoACGDSK0oC0V5ZFLLchfnxtZwINUktC > WYxVg4sWPpMQGFgyJuUTMaEYTyN+bzIUY/KgytJvMDjWUIUwPZVdHNl136KDrn0E > 4mvYevFGVv7DPxQIAbFOxOv4W1TSGL6GxOhpCY/k1xiMGO2qn4lbSXS9hsTwiCcX > 1gbNAjQQEN22ZE6EcIzOw37WIPEdmYE8xYT/mdVm1ytBpPujnpHvoLnz5D5GHd2X > F8fyAJ31ujnW/+cCMGZcIs8bP4VlidsMQLf+02HUN9Aw2wfdkYmB4kr9cI1KTVf/ > 2S/8heex+Z4kfY0M8SZkSFqLlwTId+ZfZxKbk+xW8kgmThSnGS7DVeS2vjeXf6fK > xw74/0Wt+yMZG9lpt9thzybir2SBakrhtjypjlTKHiXeiAsHDCUOJqYHqzHfCrpu > xnb0LjLC1c0= > =fq2+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0) { printf("Don't Panic!\n"); exit(42); } -- Arnold Robbins in the LJ of February '95, describing RCS
