convert .wmv to .avi or .mpg
 

I need to convert some video from .wmv to either .avi or mpg so I can watch it in linux. Any ideas?

Hi,

Mplayer can do that.

Here's a simple example:

mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi

This simple example will create an avi file from a wmv file. See man mencoder for details and other options.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for this post. I just found it searching, and it worked perfectly.

There is another tool called transcode which may be helpful for merging video files. I use it in conjunction with mencoder.

Are there any GUI programs to do this? Am an ex-windows user and really struggling with command line apps

Damian, I like the gui program avidemux, it works as a great gui program for most all video formats..

There is a gui frontend to mencoder and transcode called konverter (look for it at kde-apps.org or your distros software repo).

This worked.

mencoder stest.wmv -vf scale=720:480 -ofps 30000/1001 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:aspect=4/3 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2 -o stest.mpg

This is a script I use to convert things to DVD format. Unfortunately it messes up the frame rate for some wmv files. The video is twice as fast as the audio.

mkfifo stream.yuv
cat stream.yuv | yuvscaler -n n -O DVD | mpeg2enc -q 7 -f 8 -F 4 -n n -o temp.m2v &
mplayer $1 -nosound -vo yuv4mpeg
mplayer $1 -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:file=temp.wav
mp2enc -r 48000 -o t.mp2 < temp.wav
mplex -f 8 t.mp2 temp.m2v -o $2

Having read this thread, tried looking for "Konvertor" but do not find it have tried the command line but it keeps on bitching about some crap and say I should try usong -help which I do and it bitches about it does not understand the command.

So... Does anyone have a URL to anything that is free that will convert wmv? H have no idea what the original specs for the file are which is something mencoder seems to bitch about.

And then this message is displayed in one of the outputs but none of the others

So what now?

Well I was playing with it more in the terminal and was trying to be clever and managed to get this output, if it means anything...
Any suggestions?

@\\.\: You added your question to a really old thread (started in 2004) which was not drm specific.

I think it would be a better idea to start a new thread, it will give you the exposure you want/need.