How do I encode for a standalone DivX player with Handbrake?
I don’t actualy have the standalone player handy – it’ll be at my destination – so I can’t test it. However, your collective answers gave me enough to search on to realise that: (a) there’s actually a forum for Handbrake where I should ask silly questions like this; (b) MPEG-4 Layer 2 is just a standard, that Advanced Simple Profile (ASP – the most widely implemented profile) is just one part of the standard, and that there are legion ways to actually implement it with codecs; (c) at the end of the day, so long as you have a standards-compliant file, all standalone DivX players are looking for is an expected flag (called a fourcc) to let them know that it is compliant and that they should have a crack at decoding and playback; (d) it seems that while the default fourcc for ffmpeg is FMP4, a flag
