[XviD-devel] MPEG4 File encoding

[peter ross]

>From: Adrian Matellanes <adrianm@visual-tools.com>
>
>Hi all, I'm a newbie in this topic. I downloaded the current snapshot I
>compiled in my debian/testing machine.
>
>I played the example called: xvid_enc_dec and wanted to generate an
>MPEG4 file but I get just three files corresponding to each frame.
>Can I use Xvid to generate an MPEG4 sequence or AVI or whatever single
>file containing the video sequence?

xvidcore ony deals with "raw" mpeg-4 visual bitstreams.
to playback the video in popular applications (quicktime,envivio,etc.),
you have to embed the bitstreams in either a container format:
.avi, .mp4, etc.

the mpeg4ip project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpeg4ip) has a
tool for converting raw mpe4 visual bistreams to .mp4.

>Looking at the API doc I see no way to generate headers, etc... should I
>use other library to generate the file?

yes.
there are existing tools and libs for encoding/manipulating container
formats: eg. transcode, mplayer/mencoder, virtualdub, etc.

-- pete

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