Anyone have experiences with Mplayer/Mencoder?

[lpxxfaintxx]

Hi,

I have a linux server hosted by SoftLayer, and I have root access and everything. I have successfully installed FFMPEG, mplayer, mencoder, flv2tool, lame encoder, and everything needed by the ClipShare software.

However, I have run into one big problem. I have customized the ClipShare (youtube clone) script so that it converts all videos into .WMV file, for Zune users to download. However, the .WMV is not recognized by Windows Media Player, nor the Zune software because I have not installed the x86 DLL to support windows Media Video 9 (WMV3), according to my programmer.

How do I go about and install the codec?

I've run the command "mencoder -ovc help" to see what codecs were available and the results were:


Available codecs:
copy - frame copy, without re-encoding. Doesn't work with filters.
frameno - special audio-only file for 3-pass encoding, see DOCS.
raw - uncompressed video. Use fourcc option to set format explicitly.
nuv - nuppel video
lavc - libavcodec codecs - best quality!
vfw - VfW DLLs, read DOCS/HTML/en/encoding-guide.html.
qtvideo - QuickTime DLLs, currently only SVQ1/3 are supported.
xvid - XviD encoding
x264 - H.264 encoding


I need WMV encoding added also!

Please help me if you can. Thanks!

Regards,
LPX

[i92guboj]

Hi,

I have a linux server hosted by SoftLayer, and I have root access and everything. I have successfully installed FFMPEG, mplayer, mencoder, flv2tool, lame encoder, and everything needed by the ClipShare software.

However, I have run into one big problem. I have customized the ClipShare (youtube clone) script so that it converts all videos into .WMV file, for Zune users to download. However, the .WMV is not recognized by Windows Media Player, nor the Zune software because I have not installed the x86 DLL to support windows Media Video 9 (WMV3), according to my programmer.

How do I go about and install the codec?

Why do you want to use a closed propietary ms format when there are zillions of open ones available?

I've run the command "mencoder -ovc help" to see what codecs were available and the results were:


Available codecs:
copy - frame copy, without re-encoding. Doesn't work with filters.
frameno - special audio-only file for 3-pass encoding, see DOCS.
raw - uncompressed video. Use fourcc option to set format explicitly.
nuv - nuppel video
lavc - libavcodec codecs - best quality!
vfw - VfW DLLs, read DOCS/HTML/en/encoding-guide.html.
qtvideo - QuickTime DLLs, currently only SVQ1/3 are supported.
xvid - XviD encoding
x264 - H.264 encoding


I need WMV encoding added also!

Please help me if you can. Thanks!

Regards,
LPX

I never felt the need to create windows media files, but a quick google search revealed lots of results, for example:

How to convert AVI to WMV by MEncoder | howforge.com