[MPlayer-users] mencoder MJPEGS won't play in WMP

[Graham Bleach]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:36:40PM +0100, Graham Bleach wrote:
> I did this:
> 
> mencoder -vop rotate=1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -oac copy source.avi -o dest.avi
> 
> MPlayer can play the rotated files, but Windows Media Player cannot -
> there is only sound without video. WMP can play the orginal files from my
> digicam fine. Anyone know why, or how to fix it?

For reference, I fixed this by using ffmpeg from:
http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/

ffmpeg -i dest.avi -sameq -acodec pcm_u8 -vcodec mjpeg dest2.avi

I think there is something wrong with the MJPEGs produced by mencoder.

G
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