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Programs for converting WMV to AVI or other formats?


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Playing certain WMV files crashes mplayer for me. I was wondering if there are any programs for linux that will convert a WMV file to other formats. I haven't read up on mencoder for mplayer yet, so I am about to do that, just wanted to see if anyone knew of other programs that could accomplish this.

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OK, I checked out mencoder, and found information on 2-pass encoding. Using the example on the documentation, I executed the following command:

 

mencoder dishwalla.wmv 2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1:more_options -oac copy -o movie.avi

 

And I got the following output:

 

Using GNU internationalization

Original domain: messages

Original dirname: /usr/share/locale

Current domain: mplayer

Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale

 

 

MEncoder 0.90pre9-3.2 © 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

 

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)

CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0

Reading /home/sdmf/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/sdmf/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory

Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 110 video codecs

File not found: 'frameno.avi'

Subconfig parsing returned error: -1 in token: more_options

Error: 'lavcopts' is not a mplayer/mencoder option

command line: -lavcopts

Exiting... (error parsing cmdline)

 

 

Is this something where I needed to include the libavcodec when compiling MPlayer? If so, I have no idea what parameter I should use when recompiling MPlayer.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Just began toying with mencoder myself over the weekend and had a bit of success after running into same problem. Don't know if this will do the trick for you, but its worth a try.

 

Try removing the 2 and more_options as see if you get any results.

 

mencoder dishwalla.wmv -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -oac copy -o movie.avi

 

If you get the same result, try removing

:vpass=1

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