-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Klinke wrote: > On Monday 14 November 2005 16:24, luca porcu wrote: >> With mencoder convert from wma to avi but not avi to wmv, wmv is >> closed!! > > I just did a little test. Took a picture with my digital camera to > create a 60 second pacman.mov file and then used: > > mencoder -oac pcm -ovc copy pacman.mov -o pacman.wmv > > and it converted just fine to view the pacman.wmv with mplayer. > Perhaps mplayer/mencoder have gotten smarter lately. I think perhaps Luca's point was more ideological than technical. He's referring to the fact that WMV is a "closed" codec, owned by Microsoft, and therefore evil ;-). AVI/MPEG are more "open" codecs, freely available on many platforms. I think that's what Luca was getting at... C. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDeR1BMDDagS2VwJ4RAoxjAJ91Zw4uvsRCSSplcb3M1RKnXjof5gCguHMx Sdvr/uSkLyAChrABTYjAQVU= =m/Vq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
