Video for Windows provides simple encoding by means of binary video codecs. You can encode with the following codecs (if you have more, please tell us!)
Note that support for this is very experimental and some codecs may not work correctly. Some codecs will only work in certain colorspaces, try -vf format=bgr24 and -vf format=yuy2 if a codec fails or gives wrong output.
| Video codec file name | Description (FourCC) | md5sum | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| aslcodec_vfw.dll | Alparysoft lossless codec vfw (ASLC) | 608af234a6ea4d90cdc7246af5f3f29a | |
| avimszh.dll | AVImszh (MSZH) | 253118fe1eedea04a95ed6e5f4c28878 | needs -vf format |
| avizlib.dll | AVIzlib (ZLIB) | 2f1cc76bbcf6d77d40d0e23392fa8eda | |
| divx.dll | DivX4Windows-VFW | acf35b2fc004a89c829531555d73f1e6 | |
| huffyuv.dll | HuffYUV (lossless) (HFYU) | b74695b50230be4a6ef2c4293a58ac3b | |
| iccvid.dll | Cinepak Video (cvid) | cb3b7ee47ba7dbb3d23d34e274895133 | |
| icmw_32.dll | Motion Wavelets (MWV1) | c9618a8fc73ce219ba918e3e09e227f2 | |
| jp2avi.dll | ImagePower MJPEG2000 (IPJ2) | d860a11766da0d0ea064672c6833768b | -vf flip |
| m3jp2k32.dll | Morgan MJPEG2000 (MJ2C) | f3c174edcbaef7cb947d6357cdfde7ff | |
| m3jpeg32.dll | Morgan Motion JPEG Codec (MJPG) | 1cd13fff5960aa2aae43790242c323b1 | |
| mpg4c32.dll | Microsoft MPEG-4 v1/v2 | b5791ea23f33010d37ab8314681f1256 | |
| tsccvid.dll | TechSmith Camtasia Screen Codec (TSCC) | 8230d8560c41d444f249802a2700d1d5 | shareware error on windows |
| vp31vfw.dll | On2 Open Source VP3 Codec (VP31) | 845f3590ea489e2e45e876ab107ee7d2 | |
| vp4vfw.dll | On2 VP4 Personal Codec (VP40) | fc5480a482ccc594c2898dcc4188b58f | |
| vp6vfw.dll | On2 VP6 Personal Codec (VP60) | 04d635a364243013898fd09484f913fb | |
| vp7vfw.dll | On2 VP7 Personal Codec (VP70) | cb4cc3d4ea7c94a35f1d81c3d750bc8d | wrong FourCC? |
| ViVD2.dll | SoftMedia ViVD V2 codec VfW (GXVE) | a7b4bf5cac630bb9262c3f80d8a773a1 | |
| msulvc06.DLL | MSU Lossless codec (MSUD) | 294bf9288f2f127bb86f00bfcc9ccdda | Decodable by Window Media Player, not MPlayer (yet). |
| camcodec.dll | CamStudio lossless video codec (CSCD) | 0efe97ce08bb0e40162ab15ef3b45615 | sf.net/projects/camstudio |
The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
codec parameter,
like: -xvfwopts codec=divx.dll
The FourCC code used by each codec is given in the parentheses.
An example to convert an ISO DVD trailer to a VP6 flash video file using compdata bitrate settings:
mencoder -dvd-devicezeiram.isodvd://7 -otrailer.flv\ -ovc vfw -xvfwopts codec=vp6vfw.dll:compdata=onepass.mcf -oac mp3lame \ -lameopts cbr:br=64 -af lavcresample=22050 -vf yadif,scale=320:240,flip \ -of lavf
To encode with the Video for Windows codecs, you will need to set bitrate and other options. This is known to work on x86 on both *NIX and Windows.
First you must build the vfw2menc program. It is located in the TOOLS subdirectory of the MPlayer source tree. To build on Linux, this can be done using Wine:
winegcc vfw2menc.c -o vfw2menc -lwinmm -lole32
To build on Windows in MinGW or Cygwin use:
gcc vfw2menc.c -o vfw2menc.exe -lwinmm -lole32
To build on MSVC you will need getopt. Getopt can be found in the original vfw2menc archive available at: The MPlayer on win32 project.
Below is an example with the VP6 codec.
vfw2menc -f VP62 -d vp6vfw.dll -s firstpass.mcf
This will open the VP6 codec dialog window.
Repeat this step for the second pass
and use -s secondpass.mcf.
Windows users can use -xvfwopts codec=vp6vfw.dll:compdata=dialog to have the codec dialog display before encoding starts.