[MEncoder-users] XviD compress avi doesn't play on windows

[Florian Schulze]

Hi!

I encoded an avi with XviD and it plays fine with mplayer, but it doesn't 
show the video on Windows. On Linux I used XviD 1.0.3 and MPlayer 1.0pre6 
with this commands:

mencoder -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128 -srate 44100 -o 
frameno.avi [playback command] ...
mencoder -nosound -ovc xvid -oac copy -xvidencopts 
bitrate=615:quant_type=mpeg:quant_intra_matrix=/home/guest/kvcd_intra:quant_inter_matrix=/home/guest/kvcd_inter:pass=1 
-srate 44100 -o /dev/null ...
mencoder -ovc xvid -oac copy -xvidencopts 
bitrate=615:quant_type=mpeg:quant_intra_matrix=/home/guest/kvcd_intra:quant_inter_matrix=/home/guest/kvcd_inter:pass=2 
-srate 44100 -o output.avi ...

On Windows I tried XviD 1.0.3, but WMP doesn't recognize the video stream. 
I used GSpot and it also said it can't find a DirectShow path for the 
video stream. The only way to see something was using VirtualDub. I tried 
to fix the avi stream with VirtualDub, but it didn't change anything.

What can I do to create XviD avis which play on Windows?

The sound is fine in all cases, except that VirtualDub writes something 
about an invalid vbr audio header.

Regards,
Florian Schulze