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

[Troy D. Strum]

I do this all the time.

My source images are JPEGs and are 720x480. They start out as DV sized still
frames (720x480 TIFFs) and I use imagemagick to move them to convert them to
next-to-lossless 720x480 JPEG (as mencoder only likes JPEG and PNG for mf).
For the two mencoder lines to follow I use up to 1000 individual frames.

Once I have a directory of images I use this line:

mencoder -v "*.jpg" -mf on:fps=30 -vop scale=640:480 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:keyint=15:vbitrate=3000:vhq -o "/home/troy/highquality.avi"

(Yes, I know the above line looks a little kooky, but this is on purpose.)

I also use this line:

mencoder -v "*.jpg" -mf on:fps=30 -vop scale=320:240 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=100:vhq -o "/home/troy/streaming/streaming.avi"

The resulting files will play perfectly on Windows, Mac and Linux - using
WMP, QuickTime and Mplayer respectively - using either of those lines.

I'm pretty sure that using *.png would work as well, without using
ImageMagick to convert into JPEG - thus saving you a step. What is the magic
here? Not quite sure, but it works perfectly well.

- Troy



----- Original Message -----
From: "D Richard Felker III" <dalias at aerifal.cx>
To: "MPlayer user's list." <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] avi wont play in windows - help please!!!


[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:19:01PM +1200, lzha022 at ec.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi Rich,
>
> For this file, if i play it with windows media player version 6.4, it can
not
> play at all and gives me the error: "Can not play back the video straem:
no
> suitable decompressor could be found".
>
> While if i play it using version 9.0, it is playing, but i can not see the
> picture which is made up of many sqaures(strange shapes) of differenct
colors.
>
> Any idea?