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From: Marco Gigante <marcogi.lists@email.it>
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:11:03AM -0400, Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
> Jobert wrote:
> >Hello good day;
> >
> >Want to ask question on how to convert .wmv and .asf
> >to mpg. Thanks on advance
> >_______________________________________________
> 
> mencoder (part of multimedia/mplayer) can encode to mpeg1 (and other 
> formats) and can read anything that mplayer can.
> 
> mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -oac mp3lame $WMV_FILE

Maybe you want to use -of mpeg option too. Otherwise the mpeg1 video is
put into avi container.

mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -oac mp3lame \
-of mpeg -o $MPEG1_FILE $WMV_FILE


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Marco Gigante