[Gllug] mencoder and windows media / winamp

[Rich Walker]

Alistair Mann <alistair at lgeezer.net> writes:

> Thus spaketh Rich Walker on Tuesday 03 June 2003 2:01 pm:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to produce some video to ship on a CD to people. Bitrate is
> > not a problem - it's about 6 minutes, and it's going on a CD on its
> > own. So I'd like to produce a video at decent quality.
> >
> > Problem: I can't find a set of options for mencoder (or kino which uses
> > mjpegtools) that will produce something that will actually play on
> > Windows Media or Winamp. VideoCD works, but I was hoping for higher
> > quality. Any ideas?
> 
> mencoder as supplied with mplayer comes with a man page that details options. 
> Is that insufficient?

Fraid so.

I'm now into Day 5 of banging my head on this problem. Sadly, I can't
find *any* documentation of "what Media Player/WinAmp accepts as
input". If I could, then I could select options accordingly.

John Hearns has relayed the query to the linuxmovies mailing list, which
might help. At present, I can get kino's VCD output to work, and a
generic mpeg2, but I'm hoping to produce something of reasonable
quality.

cheers, Rich.





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