[ILUG] [May be OT, May not] Video recoding/transcoding

[Kae Verens]

Justin Mason wrote:
> Your best bet may be to ditch that MSware and get down and dirty with free
> software and a command line ;)
> 
> e.g.:
> 
>   mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64:vol=2 -srate 22050 \
>       -ovc xvid -sws 1 -xvidencopts bitrate=150:max_key_interval=120:vhq=3 \
>       -ofps 15 -vop scale=500:372 big.avi -o small.avi
> 
> that's a command line I used recently to transcode a large AVI file down to a
> lower bitrate and size; mencoder is your best bet.


here's mine - just pop it into a file and run it with the video file name as a 
parameter

clear
rm -f divx2pass.log
ls -l "$1"
df -h
nice mencoder "$1" -oac mp3lame -lameopts \
mode=3:vbr=3 -vf hqdn3d=2:1:2 -vf \
scale -zoom -xy 320 -ovc lavc \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=250:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:\
mbcmp=3:autoaspect:vpass=1 -o tmp.avi \
&& \
nice mencoder "$1" -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=3:vbr=3 -vf hqdn3d=2:1:2 -vf
scale -zoom -xy 320 -ovc lavc \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=250:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:\
mbcmp=3:autoaspect:vpass=2 -o tmp.avi \
&& \
ls -l "$1" && mv tmp.avi "250/$1" && ls -l "250/$1"

I name this "/bin/reencode"