Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 31, 2006 09:59 PM
The Philips DVP642 doesn't seem to recognize the fourcc codes that mencoder puts in for xvid or ffmpeg-mp4, even though the codecs should be decodable.
adding "-ffourcc=divx" to the options seems to take care of the problem. I've converted xvid and ffmpeg-mpeg4 videos with a simple "mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -ffourcc=divx" and they play fine, so, like "IE only" websites that actually look fine when you spoof the user agent, spoofing the "fourcc" code appears to work for some players.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 31, 2006 09:59 PMadding "-ffourcc=divx" to the options seems to take care of the problem. I've converted xvid and ffmpeg-mpeg4 videos with a simple "mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -ffourcc=divx" and they play fine, so, like "IE only" websites that actually look fine when you spoof the user agent, spoofing the "fourcc" code appears to work for some players.
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