libavcodec provides simple encoding to a lot of interesting video and audio formats. You can encode to the following codecs (more or less up to date):
| Codec name | Description |
|---|---|
| mjpeg | Motion JPEG |
| ljpeg | Lossless JPEG |
| h263 | H.263 |
| h263p | H.263+ |
| mpeg4 | ISO standard MPEG-4 (DivX 5, XVID compatible) |
| msmpeg4 | pre-standard MPEG-4 variant by MS, v3 (AKA DivX3) |
| msmpeg4v2 | pre-standard MPEG-4 by MS, v2 (used in old asf files) |
| wmv1 | Windows Media Video, version 1 (AKA WMV7) |
| wmv2 | Windows Media Video, version 2 (AKA WMV8) |
| rv10 | an old RealVideo codec |
| mpeg1video | MPEG-1 video |
| mpeg2video | MPEG-2 video |
| huffyuv | lossless compression |
| asv1 | ASUS Video v1 |
| asv2 | ASUS Video v2 |
| ffv1 | FFmpeg's lossless video codec |
The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the vcodec config, like: -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4
An example, with MJPEG compression:
mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -oac copy