video convert AVI <=> wmv

[Yuandan Zhang]

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 20:09 -0600, Mike Klinke wrote:
> On Sunday 13 November 2005 19:04, Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am looking for ways to convert video file between, for example,
> > AVI and WMV or mpeg and WMV? can mplayer/encoder do it? How?
> 
> This may work for you: 
> 
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy <input-file> -o <output-file>
> 
> 
> Regards, Mike Klinke

This is the error i get
 
[yzhang4 at zhangqiang VIDEO]$ mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy  garden008.avi
-o garden008.wmv
MEncoder 1.0pre7try2-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel  (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with
--disable-runtime-cpudetection.
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Failed to open frameno.avi
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x176944b8
AVI file format detected.
AVI: ODML: Building odml index (1 superindexchunks)
AVI_NI: No video stream found.
============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported
=============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the
author! ===
Cannot open demuxer.

Exiting...


SIMILAR ERROR AS I play this avi file with mplayer


[yzhang4 at zhangqiang VIDEO]$ mplayer garden008.avi
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel  (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing garden008.avi.
Cache fill: 10.55% (884736 bytes)    AVI file format detected.
AVI: ODML: Building odml index (1 superindexchunks)
AVI_NI: No video stream found.


Exiting... (End of file)


how to fix?

Yuandan