[MPlayer-users] divx 6

[Corey Hickey]

Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 4/20/06, Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml at fatooh.org> wrote:
>> Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>>> hello
>>>
>>> is there any way to use the linux divx 6 binary codec with mencoder ?
>>> http://labs.divx.com/DivXLinuxCodec
>> No, though if someone were to add support it would be useful for testing
>> and comparison.
>>
>> In any case, you'll probably get better performance and/or quality by
>> using XviD or libavcodec MPEG-4, both of which are well-supported in
>> mencoder.
>>
>> -Corey
> 
> thanks for the reply
> i know that xvid and lavc is there, but i have to use divx
> (i'm going to a programming contest this weekend and they specified
> that we need to be able to encode divx, but probably any mpeg4 encoder
> will be ok)

Interesting. What kind of a programming contest?

For best interoperability, be sure to know about the -ffourcc option. 
Many players/decoders don't recognize libavcodec's FMP4 fourcc, so using 
'-ffourcc XVID' or '-ffourcc DIVX' might be necessary.

-Corey