Re: FFmpeg and Mencoder DIVX...
From: Thierry SALMON (thierry.salmon_at_tiscali.be)
Date: 09/23/03
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:56:28 +0200
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:38:13 +0000, James McIninch wrote:
> 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.
why not try bootable CD with
http://movix.sourceforge.net/
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