[MEncoder-users] newbie - convert AVI-movie from camera to compatible mpeg

[Kasper Bonne]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 20:41, Thomas Porschberg <thomas at randspringer.de> wrote:
> I shoot a little movie with my Olympus-camera and now I have to rotate
> it by 90°.
> I tried
> mencoder -vf rotate=1 -o OUTPUT.mpg -oac copy -ovc lavc INPUT.AVI
> and at the first glance it worked. My mplayer on linux played it without problems.
>
> But now I observed that the resulting mpg-file is well displayed by VLC-media player
> but not by windows media player and quicktime under windows.

Try calling your output file output.avi (instead of .mpg). It's
possible that the video players your mention are confused by the wrong
extension.

/Kasper