[MPlayer-users] encoding movies to play in WMP?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:02:41PM -0800, brian gerkey wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hi,
> 
> This may sound like a silly question, but how can I get mencoder to produce
> a movie that will play in Windows Media Player?  I'm starting from
> individual frames as jpegs (no audio).
> 
> I've tried many, many variants of the following command-line:
> 
>   $ mencoder \*.jpg -of avi -mf on:type=jpeg:fps=10 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4
> 
> No matter what I do, the video plays fine in mplayer, but WMP tells me
> that it can't play it back, complaining about the lack of a suitable
> decompressor.
> 
> I've also tried -ovc divx4, but mencoder always segfaults before starting to
> encode.
> 
> Is there a way to produce a move that vanilla WMP (i.e., without
> additional codecs installed) will play?
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.

Try -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4[v3], msmpeg4v2, or wmv1. At least one of
these should work. No idea which is the best quality, or which ones
work with 2pass mode.

Rich