Is it possible to use xvid to output in .mp4 instead of .avi?

[Sgt_Strider]

Yes or no? Thanks.

[Dhampir]

Yes, you can put the XviD into an mp4 file. Go to the download section and download MPEG4IP utilities to create the mp4 files.

[bond]

there are two possibilities to encode directly to .mp4 with xvid which arent that good as the vfw-based solution tough:
1) search for the xvid dshow encoder and encode directly in graphedit into .mp4 with the 3ivx dshow mp4 muxer
2) afaik mpeg4ip offers a commandline xvid encoder that outputs to .mp4

Originally posted by Dhampir
Yes, you can put the XviD into an mp4 file. Go to the download section and download MPEG4IP utilities to create the mp4 files. before you do that read my mp4 faq (question 5), i link to in my sig
the easiest tool is propably mp4ui, but its has, like mpeg4ip's muxer, problems with b-frames, if you used packed bitstream during encoding
mp4box and 3ivx are save to use for muxing

[SeeMoreDigital]

It's a shame the XviD developers have not created an "Export to .MP4" setting (similar to the one DivX had with DivX5.0.2).

Even Mpeg4 with Mp3 audio in .MP4 is a worthy implementation!


Cheers

[Neo Neko]

Originally posted by SeeMoreDigital
It's a shame the XviD developers have not created an "Export to .MP4" setting (similar to the one DivX had with DivX5.0.2).

Why should a codec worry about containers? It is after all a codec. It should be possible and rather trivial to pipe xvid's output into ffmpeg under linux and out to an MP4 file. And if you can find the propper binaries I would hazard a guess that it is do-able under Windows. The realy limiting thing under Windows is VFW.

[celtic_druid]

Could also just use ffmpeg directly with -vcodec xvid -acodec aac.

[Neo Neko]

Indeed. The only thing the VFW versions have going for them are the zones. It would be nice if the regular binaries etc had it.

At any rate DXN has had a nasty habit of cluttering up the codec config with things like crop, resize, and container conversion. I think that is the reason so many people get the false impression that a codec should do all that sort of thing.