I'm trying to create video playable in MS Media Player.

http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/rendering-windows-playback
suggests using msmpeg4 instead of mpeg4 codec.

I tried to modify MPEG-4 profiles from
f=mp4 acodec=libmp3lame ab=128k ar=44100 vcodec=mpeg4 minrate=0 b=400k aspect=%dar mbd=2 trellis=1 mv4=1
to
f=mp4 acodec=libmp3lame ab=128k ar=44100 vcodec=msmpeg4 minrate=0 b=400k aspect=%dar mbd=2 trellis=1 mv4=1
however it fails with an error
[msmpeg4 @ 0x2464470]interlacing not supported by codec
[mp4 @ 0x2463440]track 0: could not find tag, codec not currently supported in container.

As a temporary solution I render to MPEG, and then use
ffmpeg -i file1.mpg -vcodec msmpeg4 file1.avi

Is there a way to compress with msmpeg4 directly, without intermediate files?
That is, can I setup a profile or somehow use pipes to "process into raw video"-> compress with msmpeg4 -> write to .avi

Thank you,
Yevgen.

Does it work if you set scanning to "force progressive" (drop down below list of formats in render dialog)?

It resolves first error message, however I still get the second message:

Rendering of /mnt/....mp4 crashed
[mp4 @ 0x8fb650]track 0: could not find tag, codec not currently supported in container

BTW: I wrote that I'm using msmpeg4, however I actually using msmpeg4v2 to create something playable on Windows.

You need to put that codec in an asf or avi file.