mp4 video to AMV 160x120

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 11/11/2012 11:47 AM, lee wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> writes:
>
>> On 11/10/2012 10:08 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 11/10/2012 07:40 AM, JD wrote:
>>>> On 11/10/2012 07:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>> I just got a Trio v418 that was advertised as supporting mp4 video, but it does not.  Only AMV.
>>>>>
>>>>> So is there a tool to convert mp4 videos to AMV format with 160x120 resolution?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> ffmpeg or mencoder can do it.
>>>> You must read the man page on how to....
>>>>
>>> FYI, the ffmpeg supplied from rpmfusion-free does not support amv format.
>>>
>>> ffmpeg -formats shows the list of formats.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMV_video_format seems to point to amv
>> being supported in ffmpeg. (it seems amv is an mp4 variant, so they
>> are only slightly missleading about the mp4 support)
>>
>> and http://code.google.com/p/amv-codec-tools/wiki/HowToConvertToAMV
>> seems to supply how to use ffmpeg to convert.
>>
>> So I tried what is in the f16 repo and it did not work:
>>
>> Requested output format 'amv' is not a suitable output format
> Perhaps you need to compile your own version of ffmpeg; amv support
> could be a compile-time option that wasn't enabled when they compiled it
> for Fedora?

I don't have the time to figure out how to do this.  Been over a year 
and an OS upgrade since the last time I had to do a build... Off to IEEE 
802 meeting right now and that will take up the week. And no Win system 
is coming with me and I tried all the included software and the installs 
were not working simply with Wine.  I have to read up how to do a Win 
app install in Wine...