[MPlayer-users] trying to convert MJPEG

[Steve Kleene]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:44:56 -0400, Dave Puryear wrote:

> When sending short vids to relatives running win2000 and xp, I've had
> good luck with lavc msmpeg4v2 video and lavc mp3 in an avi container.

When I tested this on a DVD track, it worked on two of the three XP machines
I tested.  I hadn't tested it with the file from the video camera, but I just
did, and it worked for that too.  I had to set a frame rate and used the
following for starters:

mencoder lizard.avi \
  -oac mp3lame -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \
  -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=1000:mbd=2:trell \
  -of lavf -lavfopts format=avi:i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames \
  -o output.avi

It remains to be seen whether it will work on an arbitrary XP machine, but
it's progress.  Thanks for the suggestion.