[MEncoder-users] msmpegv4 vs msmpeg

[Jan Knutar]

On Saturday 19 July 2008, srdan bejakovic wrote:
>
> ./mencoder in.avi -o out.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4

vcodec=msmpeg4 selects the output codec

> I get:
>
> AVI_NI: No video stream found.
> Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported

This means that mplayer/mencoder can't make any sense out of the .avi 
file, not that a video codec is missing.