Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Why can't I just say -ovc mpeg1? Why do I have to say -ovc lacv 
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video? That seems unecessarily complex.

  Because you might want to use some other library than lavc to create
your mpeg1 stream.

  (Yes, creating an mpeg video is not an unambiguous process. Some encoders
do a better job than others.)

> Also, why is there *nowhere* in the manual that says "to produce a 
> standard MPEG-1 file, type XYZ"?

  Because mplayer is not an mpeg1 encoder?

> As far as I can tell, making Mencoder output any format is equally 
> difficult and error-prone. [I still can't get it to produce an 
> uncompressed AVI file that anything except MPlayer can comprehend.] 
> Adding a rare codec like XviD would just make matters worse...

  Why would it make matters worse? I would say all the contrary.

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                                                          - Warp

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