[MEncoder-users] wmv to avi

[Adrian Dusa]

Dear Andrew, dear Reimar,

Thanks very much for your replies, and sorry for not responding sooner
(I have this bad habbit of setting digest mode only for the multiple
email lists I have subscribed).

I tried both your suggestions, but I'm probably doing something wrong
(I'm a rookie btw), because the result is still the same.

My new syntax is:
mencoder blah.wmv -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -oac copy -vf harddup
-noskip -of avi -o /dev/null
mencoder blah.wmv -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=1000 -vf
harddup -of avi -noskip -o blah.avi

(I even tried the second line with -ofps 25, same result)

Thanks very much for your patience,
Adrian


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 14:38, Adrian Dusa <dusa.adrian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear MEncoder users,
>
> I am trying to convert a .wmv file to .avi using mencoder. It works as
> expected, but the output file has a time length 10 times shorter than
> the input file.
>
> To be short, it is about a chess game with various pauses between two
> consecutive moves. The output video file, however, simply shows the
> moves without any pause, skipping the pauses. From a 10 minutes input
> file, the output has only 1 minute.
>
> I tried a 2 pass encoding, under a Kubuntu Maverick distribution:
>
> mencoder blah.wmv -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -oac copy -noskip -of
> avi -o /dev/null
> mencoder blah.wmv -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=1000 -fps 25
> -of avi -noskip -o blah.avi
>
> Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Adrian
>