On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote: > Jozef Riha <jose1711 <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> does anyone have an idea how to compile mplayer with an older version >> of xvidcore - and best integrate xvidcore into mplayer's binary? i >> want to keep the most recent xvidcore in the system (gstreamer >> dependency) but need mencoder to be compiled with xvidcore 1.1 since >> my dumb portable mp3/video player can only read old xvid files. > > Most developers believe that FFmpeg's MPEG-4 ASP encoder is superior over xvid. > A bug report explaining why you disagree would probably be welcome. (Note that > after the last comparison, a bug in the XVID decoder ruining the results _was_ > indeed fixed.) I'm not saying xvid encoder is better than ffmpeg's encoder but for some reason my teac portable player (teac mp-280, 4 gb) seems to exclusively read files encoded with xvidcore 1.1.0. jose
