[MEncoder-users] mencoder blues

[Jan Knutar]

On Thursday 13 April 2006 10:45, Dev Gorur wrote:

> Fair assumption: The majority of the world does not use mplayer to play
> movies, and therefore the movies that mencoder makes need to be playable on
> a reasonable range of other players. First I discovered the `trick' that
> unless one forces the fourcc to DX50, the mpegs produced by mencoder are
> useless unless you have mplayer.

Works with VLC and Xine atleast.

> Now it seems that one needs similar black 
> magic tricks to get qtvideo, or even lavc with rv20, to work!
> 
> The following command:
> mencoder 'mf://fitImage*.jpg' -mf type=jpg:fps=2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=rv20 -o gaussMovie.rm

This creates an avi named .rm containing rv20 video. This is a very unusual
combination, and it's not surprising that no other player can play it. I don't
know if ffmpeg can remux it from avi to rm.

> Attempts at qtvideo:
> mencoder 'mf://fitImage*.jpg' -mf type=jpg:fps=2 -ovc qtvideo -o
> gaussMovie.qt

Again, makes a avi file with, at best, qtvideo inside.