On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 21:38 +0000, Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
I wanted to put it up on my Zen web-site so that others can view it from there (and they will mostly be using WIndows). So I first created an AVI file usingmencoder as follows (following an example in 'man mplayer'):
...
So I then created a WMV file using "wmv2" format with:
mencoder dvd://1 \ -o Denver.wmv \ -oac copy \ -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=wmv2
Then I uploaded this one as well. Once again, this played fine in totem both from the file on the Debian laptop and from the copy on the web-site.
This time, when I try IE from Vista on the web-site copy, I get the video OK, but no sound.
IIRC in the mencoder command line above the -oac option specifies the output audio codec and copy means leave the audio encoded as it was before, presumably whatever is used in the DVD standard. I am surprised vista has problems with that as I would expect it could play DVDs but it may be worth experimenting with changing that.
Interestingly the GUI for trancoding in VLC has some pairs of video/audio codec that I assume the writers think are often used together these are:
VIDEO AUDIO H.264 AAC(TS) Dirac AAC(TS) Theora Vorbis Theora FLAC MPEG-4 AAC(MP4) MPEG-2 MPGA(TS) WMV WMA DIV3 MP3
HTH, Steve.