[MPlayer-users] Re: divx2 mpeg2

[Jonathan Rogers]

Ron Leonard wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi, I am Looking for an encoder to convert divx to mpeg preferablly mpeg2 or
> 3.
> I hope you can stear me in the right direction. Thanks much

MPEG-3 doesn't exist, but mplayer comes with a tool called "mencvcd" 
(it's in the TOOLS directory of the source distribution) that can create 
VCD's (MPEG-1) or SVCD's (MPEG-2). A better option might be transcode:
<URL:http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/>

For an easy to use transcode frontend, try dvd::rip:
<URL:http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/>

Jonathan Rogers