[Ffmpeg-devel] XviD support

[Christian Iversen]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 23:33, Gary Corcoran wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:36:02AM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
> >> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>> does XviD support for encoding make sense nowadays?  People in #ffmpeg
> >>> keep asking questions about adding XviD support when all they want is
> >>> MPEG-4 decoding ...
> >>
> >> XviD is useful for fairly fast and high quality encoding. According to
> >> what I've seen, it takes a lot more CPU time to make lavc MPEG-4 meet or
> >> exceed XviD's quality.
> >
> > I'm aware of this.
> >
> >> I do not know if many ffmpeg users use XviD, though.
> >
> > That's the point.  People use XviD to use XviD, not FFmpeg.
> >
> >> Also, now that I think about it, lavc's xvidrc depends on XviD.
> >
> > But how much sense does it make to support XviD encoding through FFmpeg?
>
> If one wants to transcode from the myriad of video codecs that ffmpeg
> supports, to Xvid, how else would you do it?

Through mencoder or transcode, I suppose? (or did I miss something?)

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Regards,
Christian Iversen