Convert .wmv to .avi on Linux

August 6, 2007 at 3:15 pm | Posted in avi, convert, mencoder, wmv | 3 Comments

On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install mencoder

On Fedora: yum install mencoder

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

and done!

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actually, i find 29.97 to be the best. That way, the avi file is readable on just about any OS on the planet.

Comment by tanimislam— August 6, 2007 #

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Will this work the other way around? How does one go about converting .avi to .wmv?

Comment by Stephen— September 24, 2007 #

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- Hmm, difficult to do with mencoder. HOWEVER, one can use ffmpeg to do the conversion. Of course, this information shown above is about 4 years out of date
  
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