[MPlayer-users] avi wont play in windows - help please!!!

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:50:53AM +1200, lzha022 at ec.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The avi generaged by mencoder from png images wont play in windows.
> mencoder code i have used:
> 
> mencoder \*.png -mf on:fps=5:type=png -ovc copy -oac pcm -o try.avi
> mencoder -mf on:fps=5:type=png -ni -ovc lavc -subfont-encoding UTF-16 -o try.avi
> \*.png 
> mencoder \*.png -mf on:fps=5:type=png -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o
> temp.avi
> 
> And the mplayer related staff i have installed:
> 
> aalib-1.4rc4-1.i386.rpm, lame-libs-3.92-2.i386.rpm, mencoder-0.90-1.i386.rpm
> mplayer-0.90-1.i386.rpm, mplayer-codecs-linux-real-9.0-2.i386.rpm
> mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm, mplayer-font-iso1-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> In windows i just use windows default multimedia player, it seems playing but
> the picture is just a lot of strage colors parts.
> 
> Any idea what the problem is?

Yes, putting a sequence of png files direct into an avi is a special
feature mplayer supports. Apparently windows players don't support it.
You'll need to actually encode a movie with some proper codec rather
than just using -ovc copy.

Actually, it looks like in one of your command lines, you used -ovc
lavc. Can you provide more information about what goes wrong with that
file?


Rich