[MPlayer-users] Having trouble producing mpeg from mov

[Philip Walden]

Nico Sabbi wrote:

> Philip Walden wrote:
>
>> I am trying to convert some mov files with no audio to mpeg for 
>> better compression.
>>
>> When do:
>>
>> mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2 -o 
>> PC290052.mpg PC290052.MOV
>>
>> and try mplayer to see the result I get:
>>
>
> why on earth do you want to save msmpeg4v2 in mpeg container?
> use mpeg1/2/4 instead

I was trying to produce a mpeg4 that plays on real player and window 
media player without special codecs. As for mpeg1/2 I get worse results 
on real player and window media player.