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[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:17:18PM +0200, Emmanuel Anne wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Krister Lagerstrom wrote:
> 
> > Isn't ffmpeg's mpeg4 codec better?
> 
> Maybe ! ;-)
> The problem is that there are zillions of variations on these codecs and
> I don't know them all. But by the way msmpeg4v2 is also from ffmpeg
> libavcodec. I could not tell you which one is the best.
> They also support msmpeg4v3 in cvs now...
> 
> I assumed msmpeg4v2 meant revision v2 of mpeg4 by ms, and I found it was
> fast enough to encode in real time 25fps 388x284, so I chose it (I
> assumed mpeg4 was the original mpeg4 codec, the very old one).

No, msmpeg4v2 is ancient -- it's the really poor codec used by old
.asf files before there was "divx". Then msmpeg4v3 was the one that
was hacked to make divx3, and mpeg4 is the real mpeg4 standard which
wasn't available at the time MS made their preliminary, incompatible
"mpeg4" codecs.

Rich