[MPlayer-users] mplayer with old xvidcore

[Jozef Riha]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Jozef Riha <jose1711 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> does anyone have an idea how to compile mplayer with an older version
>> of xvidcore - and best integrate xvidcore into mplayer's binary? i
>> want to keep the most recent xvidcore in the system (gstreamer
>> dependency) but need mencoder to be compiled with xvidcore 1.1 since
>> my dumb portable mp3/video player can only read old xvid files.
>
> Most developers believe that FFmpeg's MPEG-4 ASP encoder is superior over xvid.
> A bug report explaining why you disagree would probably be welcome. (Note that
> after the last comparison, a bug in the XVID decoder ruining the results _was_
> indeed fixed.)


I'm not saying xvid encoder is better than ffmpeg's encoder but for
some reason my teac portable player (teac mp-280, 4 gb) seems to
exclusively read files encoded with xvidcore 1.1.0.

jose