>> 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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