just interrested: Why would you want to conver to the proprietary format WMV? Convert from WMV to AVI is easy to explain, but why would you from AVI to WMV? On Dec 14, 2007 10:38 PM, Kai Ponte wrote:

On Friday 14 December 2007 12:41, jdd wrote:

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Gracia M. Littauer wrote:

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I need to compress BIG AVI file to wmv. Any programs?? Yes I have googled & not much there. I hope some has found one & can recomend

i use ffmpeg, but don't know if it can cope with wmv

I've been happy with mencoder

ffmpeg -i movie.avi -vcodec wmv1 movie.wmv

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Mplayer can do that. Here's a simple example: *mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi* Gracia M. Littauer wrote:

On Friday 14 December 2007 14:51:01 Gracia M. Littauer wrote:

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I need to compress BIG AVI file to wmv. Any programs?? Yes I have googled & not much there. I hope some has found one & can recomend

Thanks guys

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On Saturday 15 December 2007 15:41, Carl Hartung wrote:

On Sat December 15 2007 05:59:18 pm Paul Hands wrote:

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Here's a simple example:

*mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi*

Okay, let's see... I /think/ I get much of this:

mencoder is the program, input file, unexplained options :-), -output video codec, -output audio codec, unexplained 'copy' argument, -output to, filename.

If you don't mind, what are the unexplained bits for?

heh - you think that's wild? Check out the one I just did for converting an avi file to mpeg for putting on a dvd... mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:480,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=18:aspect=16/9:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 -ofps 30000/1001 -o movie_out.mpg Movie_Dvd_rip.Dino.avi There is somewhere that actually describes all the options. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Saturday 15 December 2007 23:00, David C. Rankin wrote:

Kai Ponte wrote:

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heh - you think that's wild? Check out the one I just did for converting an avi file to mpeg for putting on a dvd...

mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:480,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint =18:aspect=16/9:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 -ofps 30000/1001 -o movie_out.mpg Movie_Dvd_rip.Dino.avi

There is somewhere that actually describes all the options.

No Kai!,

Voodoo is _not_ allowed! Put up the wiji board and have faith in the man page. The supernatural is reserved for the folks in South Louisiana. You scare me sometimes ;-)

If I had a GUI tool, I'd use it. I just know that - were I to hypothetically download an .avi or .mpg4 movie or dvd from a bitorrent site - I'd be able to use that command to convert it to DVD format for use in the KDE DVD Authoring wizard to make a DVD. But since I never use my neighbor's wifi and I never go on bittorrent sites, I wouldn't know about such things. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 17 December 2007 05:15:57 pm David Bolt wrote:

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Kai Ponte wrote:-

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If I had a GUI tool, I'd use it.

What, you mean you don't like a CLI? :-)

While not really a GUI application, just a script that uses kdialog to display some dialog boxes, this might help:

URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/linux/scripts/avi2mpeg.sh.gz

Oh, and it's configured to use ffmpeg rather than mencoder. If needs be, it can be adapted to use mencoder options instead of ffmpeg.

Regards, David Bolt

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If you are wanting a GUI avidemux is a good one, it is just a graphic front end for all the command line tools but it can be uses as a very basic video editor as well as video converter. You can find it in packman repo and it has both qt4 and gtk versions. Hope this helps you any -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Carl Hartung schreef:

On Sat December 15 2007 05:59:18 pm Paul Hands wrote:

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Here's a simple example:

*mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi*

Okay, let's see... I /think/ I get much of this:

mencoder is the program, input file, unexplained options :-), -output video codec, -output audio codec, unexplained 'copy' argument, -output to, filename.

If you don't mind, what are the unexplained bits for?

Oh, ah. -ofps frames per second on output, -oac copy means that the audio stream is just copied from the input and not reencoded. Especially useful if you want to cut out a section: mencoder foo.SOMEWILDFORMAT -ss 1:36:26 -endpos 5:37 -ovc copy -oac copy -o bar.avi just cuts out a 5 minutes 37 seconds section starting at 1 hour 36 minutes 26 seconds into the videofile foo.SOMEWILDFORMAT and just copies the video and audio stream into an avi file. The starting time is only loosely defined (I find that the starting point remains invariant for a 10 second perturbation in the starting time parameter) but apart from that it is the fastest avi cutter I know of. lavc is the libavc, and you could configure a few options with a -lavcopts parameter. Also you could use, say, mp3 as audio codec in which case the oac parameter would read -oac mp3lame (-lameopts LAMEOPTS) A good starting point: http://web.njit.edu/all_topics/Prog_Lang_Docs/html/mplayer/encoding.html regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 Oh, btw, the given mencoder line does just the opposite the OP wanted, i.e. convert an avi file to wmv, but that's left as an excercise to the reader. :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Paul Hands wrote:

Gracia M. Littauer wrote:

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I need to compress BIG AVI file to wmv. Any programs?? Yes I have googled & not much there. I hope some has found one & can recomend Mplayer can do that. Here's a simple example: *mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi* Looks like that's the opposite of what Gracia wants; wmv is a Microsoft Windows format, proprietary. Gracia, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 AAC/FAAC MP4 can compress just as well. Avidemux would reencode your file to such a more open format.

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