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

[January Weiner 3]

> > 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?

Hmmmmm, this gives me an error message - "No VfW codec specified! It's
required!".  Well, man mencoder -> search for vfw -> nothing relevant
found; grep -i vfw /usr/share/doc/packages/mplayer/*, same (only playback
relevant information).  OK: no idea how to specify the vfw codec or where
to find it's name.

> Or you could try sticking with libavcodec and using
> vcodec=msmpeg4v2 or vcodec=wmv1 and see if either of those is playable
> on windows.

I haven't tried it on Windows yet (Windows is scarse at my institute), but
with QuickTime Player it doeth not work.

j.

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