mplayer with old xvidcore

[cehoyos at ag.or.at (Carl Eugen Hoyos)]

Jozef Riha <jose1711 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> does anyone have an idea how to compile mplayer with an older version
> of xvidcore - and best integrate xvidcore into mplayer's binary? i
> want to keep the most recent xvidcore in the system (gstreamer
> dependency) but need mencoder to be compiled with xvidcore 1.1 since
> my dumb portable mp3/video player can only read old xvid files.

Most developers believe that FFmpeg's MPEG-4 ASP encoder is superior over xvid.
A bug report explaining why you disagree would probably be welcome. (Note that
after the last comparison, a bug in the XVID decoder ruining the results _was_
indeed fixed.)

CE