[FFmpeg-user] Windows Media Player cannot play the file

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 23:23:48 +0100, James Darnley wrote:
> > On 3/10/2014 3:39 AM, James Darnley wrote:
> >> http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html#Which-codecs-are-supported-by-Windows_003f
> 
> Just so we are clear.  None of this applies to a file you want to upload
> to youtube.  It doesn't matter what you give it.  They will re-encode it
> so it plays in browsers.

Note that there's also a guide available for this:
http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/EncodeforYouTube

You just want to make sure the quality of what you upload is as good as
possible.

Moritz