mplayer logoActually this tip is applicable to any Linux distribution mencoder can be run at (like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse and even Slackware :) )

MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a close sibling to MPlayer and can convert all the formats that MPlayer understands into a variety of compressed and uncompressed formats using different codecs

Here is the fastest way to perform wmv to avi conversion:

  1. Ubuntu:
  2. sudo apt-get install mencoder
    mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi

  3. Fedora:
  4. sudo yum install mencoder
    mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi

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  1. July 20, 2010  5:40 pm by Sir Geek Reply

    I'm having a problem with the command on a Centos system:

    ffmpeg -i 20100706_0900_Time_Will_Tell.mpg -f avi -vcodec xvid -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 /tmp/20100706_0900_Time_Will_Tell.avi

    This gives me the following error:
    Unknown encoder 'xvid'

    ffmpeg -version gives:

    FFmpeg version SVN-r22794-snapshot, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
    built on Apr 5 2010 13:50:59 with gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)

    Am I missing something ?

  2. July 20, 2010  8:25 pm by Sir Geek Reply

    FYI - I was able to get it to work using -vcodec libxvid -acodec libmp3lame

  3. November 21, 2010  8:15 am by Harshit Sureka Reply

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  6. January 20, 2011  10:02 pm by NewbieX2 Reply

    I used this command to batch convert a bunch of .WMV's to xvid.

    find ~/VIDEOS type -f -name "*.WMV" -exec mencoder {} -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -xvidencopts fixed_quant=4 copy -o {}.avi \;

    Just substitute ~/VIDEOS for whatever dir you want to search.

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