[MPlayer-users] How to create wmv?

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:08:44AM -0500, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
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> On Jul 4, 2006, at 12.49, Rich Felker wrote:
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> >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?
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> why would you want to use WMV? WMP should play AVIs just fine.
> 
> >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.
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> Or he could just fix output FOURCC to read "XVID" or "DX50" instead  
> of "M4FP". That should be good enough.

XVID will not play out of the box, because windows does not come with
an mpeg4 decoder. The only decoders that come with the system are
mpeg1, wmv1/2, and a heap of legacy stuff that's for all practical
purposes useless.

Rich