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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Looking for a command line tool that converts a .wmv file into .mpg Post 302315211 by SilversleevesX on Monday 11th of May 2009 10:55:13 PM

05-11-2009

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FFMpeg must have improved since I used it last.

Unless they've changed something since I've used ffmpegX, it seemed a little iffy with the WMV format. I recall it usually losing the audio stream or squinching the video track or something along those lines. The Flip4Mac route is probably best, though for full conversion you have to shell out a little $$, as it is the Microsoft endorsed, approved and maintained means of viewing and manipulating WMV in Mac OS X.

Not too long ago there was VirtualHub by Techspansion, but neither of those are any longer with us. VH did a pretty good job of converting WMV to MPG; there were only a few I ever used it on that it had problems with, and I suspect this was because they were encoded in a version of the wmv codec too new (or too weird) for the ffmpeg, mencoder and other core utils it used behind the GUI to do the job.

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pymecavideo

PYMECAVIDEO(1)							    Pymecavideo 						    PYMECAVIDEO(1)

NAME

       pymecavideo - pedagogical program to teach mechanics

SYNOPSIS

       pymecavideo [{-f | --fichier_pymecavideo=} file] [{--maxi}] [{-d | --debug=} verbosity (level from 1 to 3)] [nomDeFichier.{avi|mpg|...}]

DESCRIPTION

       pymecavideo is a program to track a set of moving points in a video frameset. The size of the image can be calibrated, then you track the
       relevant points and export a file containing the timecode and the coordinates, to be analyzed by some other standard software.

OPTIONS

       -f file, --fichier_pymecavideo=file
	   Declares a previous snapshot file made by pymecavideo. Allows to continue just after the snapshot point.

       --maxi
	   Use the bigger user interface.

       -d level, --debug=level
	   Declares the level of verbosity to debug the application. This level is zero by default (no messages emitted), it can take values
	   between 1 and 3.

ARGUMENTS

       filename.{avi|mpg|...}
	   Defines sone video file to begin with (optional).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Georges Khaznadar georgesk@ofset.org for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 any later version
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Georges Khaznadar

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