[MPlayer-users] windows XP can't play mencoder files?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:39:31PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hello,
> 
> I have recently heard from friends that they can't playback some files I have 
> been encoding with mencoder, using msmpeg4v2 as the codec.  But it is only 
> some of them, others report it works just fine.

Umm, DO NOT use msmpeg4v2. It's an ancient codec meant for use in asf
only, not avi, so the windows players won't like it! You should always
be using mpeg4 for encoding, unless you have very special needs.

Rich