Encode a windows-compatible video
There are a lot of constantly updated video and audio codecs available in Linux. Unfortunately, the choice in Windows is way more limited. Because of this, it is common that videos compressed with the best and latests codecs in Linux cannot be read by common Windows applications. Luckily, You can encode windows-compatible videos in Linux with mencoder by typing the following command:
$ mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vhq:vbitrate=1600 -o videoout.avi videoin.xxx