[Gllug] Transcoding a file for video playback on Windows

Ashley Evans k0210244 at kingston.ac.uk
Tue Apr 15 18:16:25 UTC 2003


mencoder (mplayer) can produce a variety of divx's, one of which will play on 
at least win2k and XP as required. just use the lavc msmpeg/msmpegv2 codec 
option.

Ash.

On Tuesday 15 Apr 2003 11:36 am, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> Hiyas.  I'm trying to create a video file that will play back on a
> Windows machine without installing any additional software/codecs
> etc, but it needs to be somewhat compressed to keep the file size
> down.  I can't seem to get anything to work!
>
> I suspect my best format would be MPEG1/2 video and MPEG2 audio, but
> any time I do that, transcode creates a seperate file for the audio...
>
> Anyone got some transcode command-line options that will do what I
> need?


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