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I have a need to use uncompressed avi files in some softwares that I use and it seems like I have forgotten how to transcode a video file to an uncompressed .avi file.

The usual syntax for transcoding files doesn't really work since I have to specify a video codec and in this case I don't want to use a codec at all...

This is one of my standard commandlines for compressed video...
input_file.avi :sout="#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=3072,scale=1,acodec=wma,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=output_file.wmv}}" vlc:quit

WHy doesn't it work?

I want to encode a file to an uncompressed avi, the usual syntax requires me to specify a video codec, but there isn't any codec that stands for uncompressed video to choose from?

RV24 ?

RV24 ?

Yes, but isn't DIB a more standard format for uncomressed video?

But the real question I am asking here is how to get VLC to encode to one of these formats? (using vcodec=RV24 doesn't work for me)

Isn't there anyone who knows how to encode/stream to a uncompressed .avi file?

There haven't been any answer for a long time, is it not possible to convert a video file into an uncompressed video file using VLC?

Since VLC is the only media player that can open certain odd media files, it would be great if one could convert those files into a loss less format that can be opened by editing software (preferably uncompressed video)