Please merge with ffmpegX

[Rodney the Rabbit]

With both reading and writing, it would be a much more useful application, and a great project along the lines of mozilla, openoffice, etc.

[fkuehne]

You can already use VLC to create and stream videos, so there is no need to merge with ffmpegX. Use our stream-output features to get this done.

Additionally, ffmpegX is a proprietary and a commercial shareware on the contrary to VLC, which is free software in both meanings (free of charge and anyone is allowed to read, modify and release its source codes).

[Rodney the Rabbit]

>You can already use VLC to create and stream videos, so there is no need
>to merge with ffmpegX. Use our stream-output features to get this done.

The relevant options in the menu are gray, and I cannot trigger them.
How to export an mpg into an mov or avi?

RR

[fkuehne]

The relevant options in the menu are gray, and I cannot trigger them.
How to export an mpg into an mov or avi?

The AVI-muxer (the part of VLC that actually creates the file format) was broken a while ago and since no-one offered to fix it, we disabled it in order to prevent the distribution of broken AVIs created by VLC.

The MOV-Muxer should work, but remember that both AVI and MOV are just container formats whereas MPEG is both a codec _and_ a container format. Therefore you would need to transcode the content with a codec that QuickTime understands in its MOV-containers. MPEG-encoded content is not allowed in MOV-containers as far as I know. Thus, I recommend you to use MPEG4-containers (you might know these m4p/m4a/mp4 files) with mp4v as video- / mp4a as audio codec. These files can be played perfectly by all QuickTime players starting at version 6.