FFmpeg and Mencoder DIVX...
From: James McIninch (james.mcininch_at_attbi.com)
Date: 09/22/03
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:38:13 GMT
I've been doing some DV editing under Linux and am looking to export some of
my shorts to something I can post on a web-site and have visible to a
fairly wide audience. I've encoded the movies under Linux using Mencoder,
FFmpeg and transcode with all sorts of codecs and such, but with little
success. I have a WinXP machine to test the movies on and it has Windows
Media Player and Quicktime 6.
It seems that the pool of default codecs for either is EXCEPTIONALLY poor
compared to what is installed on my Linux machine. I'm having a pretty hard
time finding encodings that are readable under Windows. I have downloaded
the DivX player and tried encoding the files as MPEG-4 and the various
MS-MPEG and DivX variants. DivX player under Windows displays the video,
but no audio (however, under Linux, the exact same movie plays flawlessly
-- I have not been able to try a Mac), regardless of the performance
settings (and this is on a 1GHz Sony VAI under WinXP with 512M of RAM).
I'd settle for any format, of course. Quicktime Sorensen 3 is out because
they won't license it for non-Windows non-Mac use. DivX would be nice, but
it won't seem to work. There's a bug in FFmpeg that seems to always emit
MP4 files in 3GP format instead. I like MPEG2, but QT requires a $20 add-on
to play it back, and WMP doesn't support it. I also tried MPEG-1, but WMP
seems to have serious issues trying to playback MPEG-1 streams too (very
staccato, even for tiny clips).
The target audience is predominantly Windows users, but it seems that
Windows media players are extremely picky/buggy. Any advice on particular
codecs / players / or encoder settings to get something that will work. I'd
prefer something that will work with an out-of-the-box Windows ME install
(what my father-in-law uses), but seeing that may not happen, I'd take
suggestions for players or codecs that are freely downloadable.
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