[MPlayer-users] divx B frames problem

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:09, Michal Seliga wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I serached both docs and archives and I cannot find anything about it
>
> I encoded various videos from mpg to divx using lavc mpeg4 and I switched B
> frames on (I think it was option vmax_b_frames=xx, I don't remember, sorry)
>
> video played well with mplayer but it doesn't play with windows media
> player and divx5.1pro codec installed. Problem is that sometimes one frame
> is completely broken. I think that it cannot play B frames generated by
> mencoder's libavcodec...
>
> I tried to change 'DIVX'  in avi to 'DX50' but it didn't help. (I though
> that B frames are for divx5.0 and higher... but it made no change for
> playing)
>
> Is there something special I have to do to make video with B frames
> playable in windows media player?
install ffdshow (http://cutka.szm.sk/xvid/xvid.html)
divx5 is buggy

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Michael