Windows folks having some trouble with Xvids

[sith33]

Hey there - I made a small xvid (with mencoder preset) and a bunch of windows folks are saying they have trouble playing it back, yet they have all the most recent divx/xvid codecs and don't have trouble with other xvids found on the net. Am I doing something wrong?

[ykz]

Hey there - I made a small xvid (with mencoder preset) and a bunch of windows folks are saying they have trouble playing it back, yet they have all the most recent divx/xvid codecs and don't have trouble with other xvids found on the net. Am I doing something wrong?

i heard that too in some occasions while using libavc but when I told them to use vlc all was fine.

[drgandy]

I have the same problem after upgrading to .9q. .9p results were fine on Windows, but the new version broke something in the xvid codec. Somehow, I managed to make one working xvid encoding, but cannot replicate the results.

I am viewing the .avi's in Windows Media Center, so I don't have the option of switching players.

Any help, Major?

-Dave Gandy

[drgandy]

Is the encoding faster in .9q for xvid? If not, I'll downgrade for the time being.

[major]

I'm sorry, indeed 0.0.9q uses a new branch of XviD (version 1.1, while 0.0.9p used 1.0). Possibly this requires update of the XviD codec on the Windows boxes. Encoding is extremely faster due to Altivec optimizations.

[drgandy]

Thanks for the help. I'll try to track down an xvid 1.1 binary for windows.

[drgandy]

I'm having some trouble tracking down 1.1 binaries for windows. Any suggestions, Major? It is easy enough to find 1.0 binaries.

[major]

Try from http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml