Warp wrote:

>   Nowadays you might want to use mpeg4 instead of mpeg1. The former can
> compress to less than one fourth the size of the latter, while retaining
> the same image quality (or even better).
> 
>   mpeg1 is just old and obsolete nowadays.

Yes, but... does any program known to Man actually *play* MPEG-4?

I'd use AVI, except that the AVI files Mencoder produces won't play 
properly. MPEG-1 may be old and stuff, but it _works_ everywhere. (Also, 
sometimes large AVI files won't play properly because my HD isn't fast 
enough. MPEG easily fixes this.)

>> I'm curios... why is it so damned hard to do this??
> 
>   mencoder is a tool from hackers to hackers.

*sigh* Yes, from reading the "documentation" you do get that 
impression... :-(

Personally I think Virtual Dub is a fine tool, but I'm looking for 
something that can *programatically* build and play animations. 
Mencoder/MPlayer can do this - although it seems to be horribly 
difficult to get right. (E.g., I just discovered that the filename used 
for the output file can actually affect the transcoding process - WTF?)

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