[MPlayer-DOCS] mencoder question

[B K]

I am a beginner who has a move file in ac3 audio format and mpeg2 video format.  mplayer can play the video with no hassles.  Although Windows media player will not play the audio, which is why I would like to encode this file into a format that can be played anywhere no matter which codecs are present.  

I am assuming the file will be big as this will lose all forms of compression, but are there any other disadvantages?

I am not familar wit encoder to even know where to start.

I tried the following:

C:\mplayer\1.0rc2>mencoder C:\goat.mpg -o goat.avi -of avi -ovc raw -oac copy

The output was not what I expected.  The video would hardly move, and the sound was all distorted with plenty of jitter.

Can anyone help me ?

Thanks






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