[MPlayer-users] encoding

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:07:19PM +0100, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to encode various different file formats to mpg or avi, but
> I'm unable to succeed. The resulting AVI seems to be broken. I try to
> use commansd like the following:
> 
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -ni rtsp://streams3.omroep.nl/tv/vpro/tegenlicht/bb.20031109.rm
> mencoder -o test.avi -ovc copy -oac copy mms://195.121.244.220/TKStream3
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy Gezondheidsplein\ \(NEDERLAND\ 1\,\ 17\ 35\,\ dinsdag\ 22\ oktober\ 2002\).asf

If all you want is to save a copy without encoding (which seems to be
the case since you're using -ovc copy and -oac copy) then just use
mplayer -dumpstream to grab them. mencoder isn't the tool for the job.

Rich