[MPlayer-users] Difference between [DX60] and [divx] in mplayer output

[Eli Crumrine]

Jorge Fábregas <jfabregas at onelinkpr.net> | Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:23:49
-0400

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have two avi files. When I run it thru the command line, the first
> part ot the mplayer output looks like:
> 
> AVI file format detected.
> VIDEO:  [divx]  320x240  24bpp  30.000 fps  375.0 kbps (45.8 kbyte/s)
> 
> The other one:
> 
> VI file format detected.
> VIDEO:  [DX50]  416x312  24bpp  29.970 fps  640.0 kbps (78.1 kbyte/s)
> 
> What's the difference between divx and DX50 here? Is it a matter of
> the codec version used? Does different versions of the same codec
> produce different headers?

DX50 is the fourcc for divx version 5.  So yes.  IIRC 'divx' is used in
all previous versions of the codec.

-- 
Eli C.
2006:12:12