[MEncoder-users] Convert webm to any other format

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Paul Brauner <polux2001 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I've used cheese (http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/) to record a small
> video with my webcam. I shouldn't have in retrospect but that's too
> late, I can shoot it again :) So it outputs webm files by default.
> When I try to use this video in kdenlive I get very weird behaviours
> (like, the video jumps to random frames). So naturally I've tried to
> convert it to another format. 

Anything wrong with the following?
$ ffmpeg -i input -qscale 2 out.avi
$ ffmpeg -i input -strict -2 -qscale 2 out.mov
(etc.)

Reimar forgot to mention that MEncoder is not actively 
maintained for several years, so for tasks that are not 
MEncoder-specific (binary decoders for example), you 
should really use ffmpeg.

(As a side-effect, I am quite sure it will output the video 
with a normal framerate without any extra options.)

Carl Eugen