14.6. Encoding with the `Video For Windows` codec family
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## 14.6. Encoding with the `Video For Windows` codec family

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.

### 14.6.1. Video for Windows supported codecs

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 | crashing on Linux
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 with VP3 compression:

    mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -ovc vfw -xvfwopts codec=vp31vfw.dll -oac copy

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