On Thursday 14 Jun 2007, Alan Chandler wrote: > I wrote a post like this morning but for some reason it appears to > have got lost apologies if it appears shortly twice. > > > I have made a video with cinelerra and would like to generate a > format that will be not too large and playable with windows media > player. I am running on linux. > > I tried the instructions in 19.7.1 of the manual to create an avi > file (other than scale the output and slightly increase the bit rate > to compensate, which plays fine in linux, but when I load it into > Windows it only sees the audio and plays it like it was an audio > file. > > What am I doing wrong?
After a lot of experimenting and asking windows users to try out what I had done, I have found the only fullproof way is a) Use cinelerra to create a .mov file (with DV format video) b) Convert to avi using mencoder in two passes - put the following in ~/.mplayer/mencoder.conf [winp1] profile-desc="AVI encoding as first step for windows" of=avi=1 oac=mp3lame=1 lameopts=cbr=1:br=160 ovc=lavc=1 lavcopts=vpass=1:vcodec=wmv2:vbitrate=600 [winp2] profile-desc="AVI encoding as second step for windows" of=avi=1 oac=mp3lame=1 lameopts=cbr=1:br=160 ovc=lavc=1 lavcopts=vpass=3:vcodec=wmv2:vbitrate=600 and then do mencoder movie.mov -profile winp1 -o /dev/null mencider movie.mov -profile winp2 -o movie.avi c) This avi will play on most peoples system, but anyone with slow processor/graphics will find the video and audio get out of sync. The only way to cure this is to go over to a windows system and use wmenc.exe over there to create a .wmv of roughly the same bit rate. (Every attempt to create a .wmv file under linux resulting in a file readable by linux but not by windows media player). mencoder movie.mov -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
