>> Why can't I just say -ovc mpeg1? Why do I have to say -ovc lacv
>> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video? That seems unecessarily complex.
>
> Warp answered that: Why should mencoder choose for you which library
> you should use?
I was under the impression that Mencoder *is* a library...
> In any case:
>
> mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4
>
> It shouldn't be too hard to go from there to mpeg1.
[Except for the minor detail that you need to say vcodec=mpeg1video, not
just vcodec=mpeg1. And you have to use a different container format.
From a different library.]
> xvid is not exactly rare.
In which population? :-P
[Notice how every time somebody posts an Xvid or DivX or anything else
to the POV-Ray servers, everybody complains they can't play it until
somebody gets it transcoded back to MPEG-1?]
> I'd be curious to see if the same command you're giving will produce
> a working avi file on my side...
mencoder mf://*.png -ovc raw -of avi -o Test.avi
That's from memory anyway... I'll check when I get home.
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