ffmpeg: wmv files generated on Mac can't be played in Windows

Question

On Mac OS X 10.6.8, I converted a animated gif to a video file in wmv (a requested file format) by using

ffmpeg -i File.gif -s 400x400 NewFile.wmv

The video file played fine using VLC on Mac. The file can't be played on a Windows 7 machine using the Windows Media Player. Is there a way that I can save the animated gif as a WMV file that can be played using the Windows Media Player on a Windows 7 machine?

Many thanks for your time!

Answer 1

You can try a codec for encoding instead. Try this.

ffmpeg -i input_gif -b:v 2M -vcodec msmpeg4 -acodec wmav2 output_wmv

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