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

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I should add that

	$ ffmpeg -formats

tells me that the TSCC codec is supported:

	ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4750, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice 
Bellard
	  configuration:
	  built on Mar 27 2005 18:44:34, gcc: 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, 
Inc. build 1495)
	(...)
	Codecs:
	(...)
	 D V D  camtasia

(TSCC codec = Camtasia codec if I'm not mistaken)

I just can't figure out how to convert my WMV file format+TSCC codec 
file to something else.

All help very appreciated.

-- Jens

On 28 Mar 2005, at 18:13, lists at ropersonline.com wrote:

> On 27 Mar 2005, at 17:39, RC wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
> Sadly, I've not (yet?) been successful with this.
>
> I'm crossposting to ffmpeg-user at lists.sourceforge.net (cf. 
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ffmpeg-user), because 
> reading that mencoder can't do the desired conversion, this issue 
> really pertains to ffmpeg then.
>
> The ffmpeg version I'm using is:
>
> ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4750, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice 
> Bellard
>   configuration:
>   built on Mar 27 2005 18:44:34, gcc: 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, 
> Inc. build 1495)
>
> I've tried:
>
> 	ffmpeg -i intro_1.wmv -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f mov intro_1.mov
>
> and what I get is:
>
> ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4750, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice 
> Bellard
>   configuration:
>   built on Mar 27 2005 18:44:34, gcc: 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, 
> Inc. build 1495)
> Input #0, asf, from 'intro_1.wmv':
>   Duration: 00:35:00.7, start: 4.923000, bitrate: 25 kb/s
>   Stream #0.0: Audio: 0x000a, 11025 Hz, mono, 10 kb/s
>   Stream #0.1: Video: MSS2, 640x480, 1000.00 fps
> Output #0, mov, to 'intro_1.mov':
>   Stream #0.0: Video: MSS2, 640x480, 1000.00 fps, q=2-31
>   Stream #0.1: Audio: 0x000a, 11025 Hz, mono, 10 kb/s
> Stream mapping:
>   Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
>   Stream #0.0 -> #0.1
> Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters 
> ?)
>
> however:
>
> $ ffmpeg -i intro_1.wmv -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f avi intro_1.avi
>
> "works", but sadly it does not produce a file QuickTime can read with 
> the EnSharpen codec.
>
> I then did some more searching and found that *supposedly* the 
> Techsmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC) is supported by ffmpeg (at least 
> in principle) either through a file tscc.c or though a Windows DLL 
> tsccvid.dll.
> Now I don't know if the tscc.c and Windows DLL solutions really depend 
> on each other and are part of the same thing. I am fairly certain 
> however, that I can't use the DLL because this is on an iBook running 
> Mac OS X 10.3.8.
>
> Does anyone has any further ideas on this?
> Again, I want to either do a container-level conversion from wmv file 
> format to mov file format or find a way to view/convert the wmv file 
> format EnSharpen encoded video in some other way.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Jens Ropers
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>