[MPlayer-users] How to create wmv?

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:20:47PM +0200, Michael Stein wrote:
> hi there,
> I'm trying to create a video to play it with mediaplayer on windows.
> which mencoder options do I need that mediaplayer can play it without
> bothering poor win-user about unknows things?

You can try using the asf (same as wmv) muxer from libavformat, but
it's not very well-supported and might generate bogus files. I would
recommend using mpeg1 video with the mpeg muxer -of mpeg -mpegopts ...
for maximum compatibility. Basically everything will play mpeg1,
including WMP.

Rich