[MEncoder-users] container conversion from WMV to MOV?

[RC]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:26:01 +0100
lists at ropersonline.com wrote:

> Now, what I want to do, I want to do a "container-level" conversion  
> from the .WMV file to a .MOV file, that is I want to not touch the  
> actual TSCC stream contained in the file -- so that I'm starting with a  
> .WMV file containing a TSCC stream and I'm getting a .MOV file  
> containing a TSCC stream. (No, simply renaming the file doesn't work,  
> tried that.)
> This should allow me to then play the video with QuickTime+EnSharpen.

ffmpeg -i INPUT.WMV -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f mov OUTPUT.MOV

mencoder can only output MPEG or AVI, definately not MOV.  The above will do the conversion you want, but that doesn't necessarily mean the video will play for you.  There could potentially be many other issues.