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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:45:57PM +0100, January Weiner 3 wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > 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 :-(

OK, how about using -ovc vfw and encoding it with some old junky VFW
codec? Or you could try sticking with libavcodec and using
vcodec=msmpeg4v2 or vcodec=wmv1 and see if either of those is playable
on windows.

Rich