1. Introduction
MEncoder is a part of MPlayer package, a movie player for Linux that can play most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. MEncoder (MPlayer’s Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, capable of encoding the wide range of fileformats and decoders of MPlayer, to all the codecs of FFmpeg’s libavcodec.