[MPlayer-users] Using mencoder to create Windows- and MacOS-friendly movies

[January Weiner 3]

> Umm, first encoding to mpeg4 is a very bad idea as it will ruin
> quality when you transcode twice. If you first transcode to
> mpeg1video, it should just pass through when you use -vo mpegpes, but
> why not produce mpegpes output in the first place from the mjpeg avi
> file??

Because it does not work, at least not in standard QT Player or WMP.

What works is simple transcoding of the avi file to mpeg, with
transcode -i file.avi -o file -y mpeg; however, the produced file has a
frame rate of 25 fps, which is about 2.5 times as much as the original avi
file, and no option to transcode seems to change it.  This is as close as I
could get to a video you can actually watch from any cybercafe terminal :-(

j.


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