[MPlayer-users] mencoder: how to set which divx to use?

[Kim Minh Kaplan]

Arpi writes:

>> On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 16:51, Dexter Filmore wrote:
>>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>>>> the man page says, when using -ovc divx4 it depends on the config *which*
>>>>> divx is used - divx4, divx5, xvid.
>>> So I can't select one or the other?
>
> they use the same api, so they conflict, can't be linked at the same time
> they are actually different versions of the same library
> (opendivx->divx4->divx5, opendivx->xvid)

In fact it is possible to have both DivX and XviD cohexist.  I plan to
add this to CVS, but I have other things to do at the moment...  The
trick is to put -libdivxencore before -libxvidcore at link stage.

Kim Minh.