[MEncoder-users] png to avi problem

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 06:41:06PM +0100, javier garcia wrote:
> Hi all;
> Please forgive my absolute lack of knowledge about multimedia if my question 
> is too dumb.
> I've got a series of .png files and have just install mplayer, mainly for use 
> mencoder to create videos in batch way, from png created by another program.
> 
> I would like that the video created could be used in my Linux box as well as 
> in other windows computers.
> 
> To do this I'm using, in the folder were I've got all my from Ks_001.png to 
> Ks_050.png files, what documentation says:
> 
> mencoder mf://*.png -mf w=700:h=700:fps=25:type=png -ovc copy -oac copy -o 
> Ks.avi 

-ovc copy is nonsense unless your input is already using a valid video
codec. Pick a codec and encode with it (e.g. -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:...).

Rich