program for re-encoding videos?

MIT_Service · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 355

I have an avi on my hd that's a bit too big for a cd (overburn doesn't work).
But I have to move it to cd, so I thought I could reencode the video with a bit more compression. Quality is not too important.
On a windows box I would use virtualdub. Is there any Linux equivalent which eases the process of reencoding a big video file?
Transcode seems a bit complicated (or am I wrong here?).

zypher · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 5:37 pm Post subject:

You could try avidemux.
It's in portage and the newest version is bug #16909.
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mjoswig · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:26 pm Post subject:

Have you tried avisplit? It's comes with transcsode and needs only two parameters

If you simply want a backup, you also can use binary split and put the results on several CDs. But you have to cat them together before viewing.

MIT_Service · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 355

Thanks for the replies.
I'll try avidemux, because splitting the video would be a bit of an overkill. It's just about 10 megs bigger than one CD .

commanderfoxtrot · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:45 pm Post subject: use transcode

Use transcode.

The easiest thing to do, if it is only 10 megs difference, is to re-encode the audio: e.g. if currently 128kbps mp3, recode to 96.

It's all in the transcode example documentation.

Don't waste your time with avidemux! It's not remotely suitable for this.

zypher · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:10 am Post subject:

???

Maybe you should have a second look at avidemux, commander.
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drizzt · Guru Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 428

I personally use mencoder at the moment. I need to reencode mpeg for use as (s)vcd. Works great and can convert nearly any format...

taskara · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 8:11 am Post subject:

tar it

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