[MEncoder-users] WMV problems

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:40:27PM +0100, Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
> > If you want nice encoding to containers other than avi, use the ffmpeg
> > program itself, not mencoder. The only reason to use mencoder should
> > be its filters, which you're not using. Otherwise ffmpeg is much much
> > better.
> 
> Sorry to jump in, but how come ffmpeg can output to other containers without a 
> problem but MEncoder can't do that? I always thought that the lavf muxer is 
> shared between ffmpeg and MEncoder, thus MEncoder should also be able to 
> output to other containers without a problem...

The muxer is not the problem; rather it's the way it's used. This
topic has been rehashed a million times already so RTFA (A=archives)
or even the summary post I just wrote to this list.

Rich