[MPlayer-users] Mencoder screws up files for Windows Media Player

[Alexander Gretencord]

I got mplayer from CVS-020327 but that shouldn't matter much. I've had this 
problem with all other versions before that I tried.

Well I do have some serious problems with mencoder here. I'm trying to encode 
an mpeg file into a DiVX. Now mplayer and "The Playa" do play the movie fine 
but when I try it with Windows Media Player (8.00.00.4477) it won't play the 
video but only sound.

Now I tried several options with mencoder. Then I got a file from someone 
else which was encoded with mencoder. It plays fine. No I'm not using gcc 
2.96 or anything strange. In fact we got the same distribution. If I do -oac 
copy -ovc copy I get a different file but it plays too. If I do the same with 
some other file (not encoded with mplayer) it plays fine afterwards too but 
with a third file it doesn't.

I can also encode the file I got from someone else again with for example 
libavcodec and mp3lame and it plays fine. But when I use lameopts to set some 
bitrate it suddenly doesn't play in wmp anymore. (Not a problem with vbr!)

The file I really want to be reencoded for now works in wmp if I do a -oac 
copy. That should help me for now but I'd really like to be able to encode 
all of my videos to my likings without problems.

Has anyone any idea what I'm doing wrong if anything ?


Alex