Hello! OK, there is the output for -ovc help and the -ovc xvid command lines... Csaba Horvath vendeg at colt:/windowsd/FilmZ> mencoder msz.mpg -ovc help -xvidencopts bitrate=700:pass=1 -oac copy -o msz.avi MEncoder 1.0rc2-4.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 Available codecs: copy - frame copy, without re-encoding. Doesn't work with filters. frameno - special audio-only file for 3-pass encoding, see DOCS. raw - uncompressed video. Use fourcc option to set format explicitly. lavc - libavcodec codecs - best quality! xvid - XviD encoding vendeg at colt:/windowsd/FilmZ> mencoder msz.mpg -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=800:pass=1 -oac copy -o msz.avi MEncoder 1.0rc2-4.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xfa42c804 MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 7998.0 kbps (999.8 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 224.0 kbit/14.58% (ratio: 28000->192000) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== Couldn't find video filter 'xvid'. Failed to open the encoder. Exiting... vendeg at colt:/windowsd/FilmZ> Ezzel a d?tummal: Friday 21 November 2008 00.02.57 The Wanderer ezt ?rta: > Horv?th Csaba wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I want to transcode an mpeg file to xvid avi. I have Mplayer 1.0rc2 > > installed, and Xvid core 1.1.3 on Suse 11. > > > > When i compile Mplayer, the ./configure says that Xvid codec is > > installed, it configures Xvid support. If i ask mencoder for > > available codecs, the Xvid is on the list. > > > > If i want to code with Xvid, Mencoder says that he can't find Xvnid > > codec... > > Exact command line and output, please.