[MEncoder-users] How to create "really standard" MPEG1 files?

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:13:25AM +0200, Mario Valle wrote:
> Seems that a quick fix has been found:
> 
> 1) creating a MPEG1 from a 768x576 set of images does not crash anymore 
> WMP, but
>    only the first frame is show for the entire duration of the movie.
> 
> 2) converting this file using the suggested:
>    mplayer -dumpvideo -dumpfile esfile.mpg psfile.mpg
>    created a files that plays OK in WMP!

My guess is that WMP does not like MPEG-PS with only video and no
audio in it. This is stupid of WMP, but using PS when there's only
video is also kind of pointless.

Rich