[MPlayer-users] mencoder under linux to avi and play under windows wmplayer not work

[RC]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:39:39 -0400
Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:

> I thought or was hoping .avi was a cross system video type
> that I could encode under linux and playyyy with wmplayer.

It's a standard container, that most every video player will support,
but NOT with every audio/video codec.

As you've discovered, most players want WMV/WMA only in an ASF
container.

Since you don't seem to want to re-encode the video or audio, why not
just use "mplayer -dumpstream" ?  Alternatively, you can try -of lavf
(see docs) to make an asf file, or you can re-encode the video/audio to
a more standard format that can be played in an AVI file.