[MPlayer-users] Greetings to all and a mencode question...

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:19:29PM -0800, J. J. Franzen wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello there.  I've been hunting around for some time now for a 
> Linux-based QT or AVI encoder that will use the AVID Meridian 
> Uncompressed codec.  I have the QTX's from Avid's site...  Now, I was 
> pointed to MPlayer and found that you guys could in fact use QTX's. 
> Imagine my joy.  Now, imagine my pain after several hours of trying to 
> get the thing to encode with anything other than -ovc copy without 
> success...  I've dug through the man pages, the docs, and the FAQ, and 
> searched the mailing list to no avail.  So, here we go:
> 
> How do I encode using vfw?  
> 
> Using just -ovc vfw tells me that I need to specify the codec to use. 
> However, I cannot find a single line anywhere on how I am supposed to 
> do this.  Can someone please point me to what I'm missing?  Thanks,

-vfwopts codec=filename.dll

Sorry it doesn't seem to be in the docs. BTW why are you using vfw for
encoding?

Rich