[MEncoder-users] MPEG4 (Simple Profile)

[Hans-Carl Oberdalhoff]

Re,

George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu> wrote:
> The container is not a problem -- it will read an avi container.  The
> following "recipe" re-encoded an existing .avi into something it could
> use:
>  mencoder [filename].avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -vf scale=320:-3
>         -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -o test.avi
>

If avi is ok, then simply try
mencoder input.file
-oac mp3lame -lameopts br=112:cbr                                    
// convert audio to mp3
-vf scale=320:-10                                                     
                   // rescale your video as needed
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4                                      
    // convert to mpeg4-video
-o target.avi                                                         
                          // output file

Does that work? This is the most basic form of mpeg4 MEncoder will produce.
If it works for you, you can tweak this in a thousand ways to best
match your needs.

hco