[MEncoder-users] Convert ogg to avi

[Guillaume POIRIER]

On 1/18/07, Guillermo Latorre <guillermo at hachemuda.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have recorded some screencasts in Ubuntu Edgy using RecordMyDesktop,
> and it works only with an output in OGG format.
>
> I want to convert it to AVI, but I don't find any explicit command
> searching in Google and in this list archive...
>
> I have tried with this:
> mencoder -idx video.ogg -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o test.avi
>
> But it seems to generate a non-real Avi output, and test.avi size is
> less than video.ogg, and I think it's strange...
>
> Can you help me?

I'd suggest reading the doc, for a start. There's all you need to know
to do what you want explained there
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/encoding-guide.html

Guillaume