Does anybody know if there is a plug-in for XMPEG / FlaskMPEG that allows you to load an AVI file as the source file? From what I can tell, the only source files that XMPEG/FlaskMPEG can load natively is MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (+ DVD VOB structure).

The reason I ask is that XMPEG in particular has a rather excellent AVI exporting plugin that allows for multipass encoding (e.g., for DivX 5) not to mention quite reasonable video resize / cropping functions. If it could read/load AVI files (in particular DV AVI ) it would be an excellent freeware/open source way of creating multipass DivX clips without resorting to doing each pass separately (which though works well with job control in VirtualDub, is still not a "neat" way).

Regards.