[MPlayer-users] Having trouble producing mpeg from mov

[RC]

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:56:13 -0800
Philip Walden <pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net> wrote:

> For avi container with mpeg video:

MPEG-1/2 video in AVI is non-standard, and you shouldn't expect it to
play in anything but ffplay.

> For mpeg container with mpeg video:
>     mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=<see table below> -o 
> PC290052.mpg PC290052.MOV

You aren't setting "-mpegopts format=", so it's no wonder they don't
play.

You seem to be creating videos without sound, so "-of rawvideo" might
even work better for you.