[MPlayer-users] uncompressed avi

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:17:55PM +0100, Steffany Appleton wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to convert wmv file to uncompressed avi so that i could use
> real producer and encode it to real. 
> 
> I tried all sorts of oprions and i get avi out of wmv but then 
> producer says "Error: Unable to set up encode.  Your input source may
> contain an unsupported color format"
> 
> I've read the documentation of real producer and it says that the input
> file format should be [for linux]
> 
> Uncompressed AVI or Uncompressed MOV
> and that it should be RGB 24 or YUV12  [I420].
> 
> 
> i tried:
> mencoder movie.wmv -o out.avi -ovc rawrgb  -oac pcm -vop format=rgb24
> mencoder movie.asf -o out.avi -ovc rawrgb  -oac pcm -vop scale=264:216 
> format=rgb24 
> 
> mencoder film.asf -ovc rawyuv  -oac pcm
> [rawyuv should put it to YUV12 ??] same error. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> So what am i doing wrong ? How should i produce uncompressed avi that
> producer will accept?

To say anything certain we need a proper bug report (FULL mencoder
output), but first thing I would suggest trying is adding -vf scale to
the command line.

Rich