[MEncoder-users] What is wrong with WMV?

[James Hastings-Trew]

Matt wrote:
> Ok so I finally got everything all set up and I know there have been many posts
> on this issue but among all of those I haven't found a solution for this
> problem. When converting a WMV to FLV format, if I don't specify an fps the
> video plays really really fast but the audio plays at normal speed. For some
> strange reason, this only happens with WMV files and not MPG or AVI or anything
> else. I know I can specify a framerate using -ofps and so far, using guess and
> check, 15.1 seems to be the closest even though it is still off at certain parts.
>
> Does anyone know of a possible solution to this? Why does it only happen with
> WMV files?
>   
try adding -vf harddup to your mix and see if it makes a difference.

My trouble is that I have .wmv files that mplayer cannot correctly 
interpret and never play back properly.