[MPlayer-users] how to convert wmv to mpeg2

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:10:46PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:42:41 +0300
> "Jouni.Lohikoski at iki.fi" <jlohikos at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> 
> > As the question and thread is still open, I ask in the same time, why
> > you can't join several similar (same resolution, same codecs, ...)
> > wmv-files together with mencoder?
> 
> Software bug?  User error?  Damaged input files?
> 
> Would you like me to keep guessing?  I can go on like this for quite a
> while...
> 
> > but couldn't mencoder handle wmv-files just as streams where between
> > the files there has been stream error (like missing UDP packets)?
> 
> Sure, just cat the ASF files together, then encode from that single
> large file.  Then it really will be just one continuous stream with a
> few errors

This is an idiotic suggestion. MEncoder has supported multiple files
as input for a long time now.

Rich