mp4 video to AMV 160x120

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 11/11/2012 12:43 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 11.11.2012 17:47, schrieb lee:
>> 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?
> a optimized ffmpeg-build supporting any codec
> is done here with the SPEC below
>
> CAUTION:
> this is a x86_64 build only becasue i686 does not exist in myworld

My Lenovo is also x86_64.  Is an rpm available for what you build? It 
would be so nice if it were...