[MPlayer-users] xvid, lavc, mencoder - thank you

[Michael Waters]

> >Thanks to the developers for fixing xvid encoding.  I noticed xvid now   
> >works with mencoder.  lavc usually does a great job but but I noticed    
> >that sometimes it makes "blocky" scenes with motion in bright sunlight
> >and when one shot fades in over another shot which fades out. I just
> >tested xvid and it seems to handle this a lot better.  Thanks!

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 19:44 -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Are you playing these back with divx4/divx5? I reported something like
> this a long time ago, and the concensus seemed to be that it was a DivX
> bug and not a problem of lavc.

No, I don't think I am.  I just do `mplayer file`.  I'd have to use
`-vo codec` for it to play back with divx4 or divx5 or am I mistaken?
If it's an easy fix, I'd like to be mistaken. :) Here's some output
when I start mplayer:

...
Playing ch1.avi
Detected AVI file format!
VIDEO:  [DIVX]  688x368  24bpp  23.98 fps  892.8 kbps (109.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info: 
 Software: MEncoder 0.90pre10-2.95.4 
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 4000->192000 (32.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
...