[MPlayer-users] xvid + mencoder broken ?

[gigyz]

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:12:56 +0200
ma.hoff at t-online.de (Martin Hoffmann) wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi,
> 
> i try to upgrade my xvid + mencoder to todays cvs - however it seems
> that mplayer/mencoder ain't compatible to xvid anymore ?
> 
> Somehow compiling like the docs chapter 2.2.1.9 say doesn't make
> configure detect xvid - so i use the "old" way by using divx4.h from
> xvid as encore2.h and decore2.h and symlink libxvidcore.so as
> libdivxdecore.so and libdivxencore.so !
> This way xvid is detected as Divx4 and mplayer compiles just fine !
> 
> However when i use mencoder to encode to xvid (using divx4 interface)
> the output file grows very large (sometimes  ~1 GB per Minute video -
> i had) and the final output file contains very strange colors and
> flickers - so there goes something very wrong i guess :(

Hi,
I had the same problem when i took file encore2.h and decore.h from
divx5 package, but with ones from the divx4 package xvid works fine. To
avoid problem of configure detect i have copied all file .h contained in
the src directory of xvid into /usr/local/include.