comparison DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml @ 15709:c5d60b8f3fa9

Updated description of XviD codec

15708:bdb826438aa8

<sect3 id="xvid">
<title>XviD</title>

<para>
<ulink url="http://www.xvid.org">XviD</ulink> is a forked development of the
OpenDivX codec. It happened when ProjectMayo changed OpenDivX to closed source
DivX4 (now DivX5), and the non-ProjectMayo people working on OpenDivX got angry,
then started XviD. So both projects have the same origin.

<itemizedlist>
<title>ADVANTAGES</title>
<listitem><simpara>
  open source
  </simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>
  its API is compatible with DivX4 so adding support for it is easy
  </simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>
  2-pass encoding support
  </simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>
  nice encoding quality, higher speed than DivX4 (you can optimize it for
  your box while compiling)
  </simpara></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<itemizedlist>
<title>DISADVANTAGES</title>
<listitem><simpara>
  currently it does not properly <emphasis role="bold">decode</emphasis> all
  DivX/DivX4 files (no problem as
  <link linkend="ffmpeg"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>
  can play them)
  </simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>
  under development
  </simpara></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

<procedure>
<title>INSTALLING XVID CVS</title>
<para>
  It is currently available only from CVS. Here are download and installation
  instructions (you need at least autoconf 2.50, automake and libtool):
</para>
<step><para>
  <screen>cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[e-mail]:/xvid login</screen>
  </para></step>
<step><para>

15709:c5d60b8f3fa9

<sect3 id="xvid">
<title>XviD</title>

<para>
<ulink url="http://www.xvid.org">XviD</ulink> is an free software MPEG-4 ASP
compliant video codec, which features two-pass encoding and full MPEG-4 ASP
support, making it a lot more efficient than the well-known DivX codec.
It yields very good video quality and good performance due to CPU
optimizations for most modern processors.
</para>
<para>
It began as a forked development of the OpenDivX codec.
This happened when ProjectMayo changed OpenDivX to closed source
DivX4 (now DivX5), and the non-ProjectMayo people working on OpenDivX got angry,
then started XviD. So both projects have the same origin.
</para>

<procedure>
<title>Installing <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem></title>
<para>
  Like most open source software, it is available in two flavors:
  <ulink url="http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html">official releases</ulink>
  and the CVS version.
  The CVS version is usually stable enough to use, as most of the time it
  features fixes for bugs that exist in releases.
  Here is what to do to make <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>
  CVS work with <application>MEncoder</application> (you need at least
  autoconf 2.50, automake and libtool):
</para>
<step><para>
  <screen>cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[e-mail]:/xvid login</screen>
  </para></step>
<step><para>