[MPlayer-users] mencoder questions

[Nico Sabbi]

>Is it running stable? This is most important to me.
>Currently I am not very interested in changing anything because I am
>recording some series from TV (Enterprise, SG Atlantis). And I don't want to
>start experiments and loose possibly some episodes hereby.
>
>Therefore any suggestion which works with my existing (and approved) versions
>is currently preferred.
>
>mfg
>
>  Ing. Rainer Hantsch
>
>  
>

since you can compile mencoder statically linked with 
libavcodec/xvid/x264 you can
copy the newer version with a different name (mencoder2) and use whichever
version fits bets your needs.