Fred K Ollinger on Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:10:35 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Recording VCDs


> Sorry, I guess I should have been more clear - that was the page I
> started from (-:  I have tried to convert the avi's I 've downloaded to
> mpeg with the tools that 'Big J' talks about, but they fail with the
> error message shown in my original posting.  That's what I'm trying to
> understand and work around - like I said, I don't know a whole lot about
> video encoding, so I'm not sure how something that 'file' identifies as
> an .avi is not the 'right' avi, at least as far as the lav toolset is
> concerned.

Did you try the 'file' command on the .avi files:

file mymovie.avi

I'd be interested to see what that returns.

Fred Ollinger
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