A shell script which makes it easy to encode DVDs, (S)VCDs or video files to the FMP4/DivX video format using MEncoder from the MPlayer project. Here you can find more information about divxenc and the features it supports as well as a FAQ on various issues.

divxenc has a total of 8 video quality presets ranging from Normal Quality to Insane High Quality. It further has the ability to auto-detect a lot of stuff, like DVD titles, chapters, subtitles, audio streams, and it supports frequently used video filters like scale, crop, dering, deblock, noise, denoise, (un)sharp mask/gaussian blur, deinterlace, interlace, inverse telecine/pullup and hard telecine/3:2 pulldown.