[MEncoder-users] Fwd: Newbie question

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "andrew barry" <jagguy9990 at lycos.com>
To: <mencoder-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:03:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: newbie

 I am new to mencoder and found documentation hard to find and also
trying to post a mesage on this list has taken a few days..
I just want to convert video type of mov,avi,wmv,mpeg to flash types flv or swf.

Just a straight conversion with sound of course and that's it.
I used this below but it fails so i wonder where I can get information
to do this. I am still searhcing past archives and google but I spent
hours already and such a basic thing (I won't go into details but my
frustration limit is at breaking point).

I also tried ffmpeg but this failed to do wmv and some sound.

mencoder movie.wmv -o movie.flv -ovc lavc -oac lavc