Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:13:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making clips Windows Media Player likes Message-ID: <20070605131128.A13943@volatile.chemikals.org> In-Reply-To: <20070605.095903.-432838228.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20070604.221510.1678771821.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070605162424.0510a425@localhost> <20070605.095903.-432838228.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20070605162424.0510a425@localhost> > Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> writes: > : On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:15:10 -0600 (MDT) > : "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > : > : > Is there a secret to making video clips that windows media player > : > likes? So far, all the ones I've done result in a fatal error at the > : > end. Is there a code/format I should specify to make things good? > : > > : > The source material is DV video that I've encoded with Kino and then > : > split apart to get a few short (~10s) clips that are the highlights. > : > : what encoding? wmv? > > The clips are currently encoded for a DVD in mpeg2video format. > > Warner If you still have the DV source, you can use mencoder to encode them into an AVI container. If you plan on burning them to a DVD, have a look at multimedia/tovid. I've only ever used it with XviD and DivX avi's, but it seems likely to fit the bill. It should handle anything that mencoder can play. -- This .signature sanitized for your protection
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