[MPlayer-users] save into divx?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:52:23AM -0000, Phil Rhodes wrote:
> > And even if he really needs to transcode, he can do it properly, and not
> > with the lousy default options.
> 
> Why are they the default if they're lousy?

xvid defaults to the "best", lavc to the fastest settings.
The advantage of the latter is that which are the fastest options
hardly depends on the source, which are the "best" settings very much
so.