Converting .ogg to .wmv or .mp4, .mpeg

[Ray Parrish]

komputes wrote:
> Ray Parrish wrote:
>   
>> komputes wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Yes it converts it to mpeg already, avi is just the container (if I'm
>>> not mistaking). ffmpeg cannot write wmv files as far as I know. If you
>>> would like to specify the target format use the following option in your
>>> command (taken from ffmpeg's man page):
>>>
>>>        -target type
>>>            Specify target file type ("vcd", "svcd", "dvd", "dv", "dv50",
>>> "pal-vcd", "ntsc-svcd", ... ). All the format options (bitrate, codecs,
>>> buffer sizes)
>>>            are then set automatically. You can just type:
>>>
>>>                    ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -target vcd /tmp/vcd.mpg
>>>
>>>
>>> -komputes
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I successfully converted an .ogg file to mpeg with ffmpeg by copying the 
>> command you gave before.
>>
>> Winff converts to .wmv format, but not .mpg, and it uses ffmpeg to do 
>> so. I wonder how to make a preset in winff to convert to mpg instead of 
>> just .wmv which is all I can find in it right now.
>>   
>>     
> Hey look at that, it does wmv! For MPEG, the choices VCD (MPEG1) DVD
> (MPEG2) and MP4 (MPEG4) given by winff are all mpg.
>
> I wonder why it doesn't needs (as Chris suggested) the full ffmpeg from
> medibuntu to convert to .wmv successfully. The codec it uses is wmv2 for
> video and wma.v8 for audio. Are these not restricted formats?
>   
>> Was that 5000 k bit rate a joke, or is it a valid setting? I got lots of 
>> the following errors when I ran that command you gave me before.
>>   
>>     
> No joke. Is it too high? I just tested a few bitrates when I was making
> a screencast recorded in .ogv by gtk-recordmydesktop. I did not want to
> lose any quality before bringing it into avidemux. It works for me and
> re-encoded with the least amount of quality loss through compression.
>
> -komputes
>   
Well, it did successfully convert the video with no attendant fuzziness 
in the output file, so the error messages are no big deal.

Thanks for the explanation of VCD, etc... I would never have known those 
were for mpg files. Learning a little each day!

Later, Ray Parrish


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