[MPlayer-users] Problem while coding an mp4 file to avi.

[JonY]

Ariel Arelovich wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I'm new at using mencoder so I wanted to know what I'm doing wrong:
> Here is the command I use:
> mencoder.exe - "c:\Temp\g2.mp4" -o "c:\Temp\g3.avi" -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame
> -xvidencopts fixed_quant=4 -lameopts cbr:br=128

Whats with the "-" after mencoder.exe? I think you should remove it and 
see what happens.

>
> Unless I understand something incorrectly this should transform my g2.mp4 to
> a g3.avi with xvid in 4 quality and mp3 audio at 128 Kbits. However when I
> execute it I get this in my windows command line promt (prueba.bat is where
> the line above is written):
>
> c:\Archivos de programa\MediaCoder\codecs>prueba.bat
>
> c:\Archivos de programa\MediaCoder\codecs>mencoder.exe - "c:\Temp\g2.mp4" -o
> "c:
> \Temp\g3.avi" -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts fixed_quant=4 -lameopts
> cbr:br
> =128
> MEncoder dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.2.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU      T2450  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 14,
> Step
> ping: 12)
> CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> Reading from stdin...
> success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x0
>
> And it just stays there without doing anything. It doesn't block. But it
> doesn't do anything else either.
> What can the problem be?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>