[vlc] AMV format?

[David Gerard]

On 25/12/2007, Pavlov Konstantin <thresh at altlinux.ru> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 08:23:59PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:

> >   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMV_video_format

> You should probably fix the part of article saying that google code is
> working on it; the project's only hosted at google code service, and the
> team working on it is not really a google code :)


Aha, *cough* :-) Fixed, and further annotated.

It appears it's been sent upstream to FFmpeg:

http://groups.google.com/group/amv-codec-tools/browse_thread/thread/3afc2809797c1109

I also discovered that my test WMV was actually 428x240 (1.78:1 aspect
ratio), so this worked to produce a usable file from this example
(sky.wmv, which ran at 25fps). The audio is still chopped up. The
-padtop and -padbottom options put bars at the top and bottom of the
output video:

./amv-ffmpeg-linux-i386-20071030 -i sky.wmv -s 160x88 -ac 1 -ar 22050
-qmin 3 -qmax 3 -padtop 16 -padbottom 16 skypadtop.amv

Note that -r 12 to make the AMV run at 12fps produced a file the
player (a cheap S1 MP3 player) wouldn't play.


- d.