Program to compress AVI files

[Mark Haney]

Roger Heflin wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:

>>
>> Thanks to both. I am talking about encoding to a smaller file size. 
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Paul
>>
> 
> mencoder would be a good program.
> 
> I would suggest first playing it with mplayer and seeing what the 
> current encoding is, if it is already xvid/divx/x264 encoded you won't 

I've found mencoder not to be quite as functional as transcode for 
certain applications.  However, I do agree with Roger, you need to find 
out the existing codec/aspect ratio before tinkering with the file. 
Instead of using mplayer, I'd try just using 'file <videoname>', that 
gives you a good amount of info on the file (just in case the file is on 
a remote system as mine are sometimes).

I do have a couple of standard lines for adjusting video files that I'll 
be glad to share if you want.  They aren't anything more than typical 
transcode/mencoder lines with basic options that I"ve saved since I 
can't always remember the options.

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