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How do I tell ffmpeg to transcode to a video codec supported by Windows Media player?

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The command below executed without error. Subsequent attempts to play outvideo.avi in Windows Media player threw this error Error detail provided by Windows Media player indicates the mpg2 codec is required to play the video. How do I tell ffmpeg to transcode to a video codec supported by Windows M…

Error Output

ffmpeg -i thevideo.mkv outvideo.avi

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You can't, since on its own does not know which codecs are installed on your system and accessible for Windows Media Player. This is because uses its own libavcodec and libavformat libraries to encode and decode. So a video generated by must not nec…

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