On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Zico <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, I have been trying to run the ffmpeg command to convert my Mpeg file to >> 3gp. I have installed ffmpeg, libavcodec51, libavcodec-dev for that. But, >> yet, I am getting the error when I run the command: >> >> ffmpeg -i MELT.MPG -ab 8.85k -acodec libamr_wb -ac 1 -ar 16000 -vcodec h263 >> -s qcif melt.3gp >> >> > > You can check all the supported formats by > ffmpeg -formats > > You should see an 'Encoding' support for your required format. > Some formats will be 'Decoding' support only.
You would have to recompile libavcodec which is done by configuring VLC or mplayer and download and recompile the 3gpp libraries. mencoder is sometimes much better than ffmpeg for this sort of thing. Hope I am not confusing. I recently wrote an article on a related topic. Perhaps it will interest others. http://aplawrence.com/Girish/mplayer.html -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
