how to make an avi smaller
Sometimes I have a divx file that is way too big to fit into a cd.
How the heck do you make an avi smaller?
I ripped a copy from dvd to an avi, and got it to under 700 megs, great. That fits in a cd. But then I had a 10 meg subtitle file! So, it didn’t fit! I needed to get the avi a little smaller.
If you look up info on mplayer, mencoder.. there’s a LOT to read.
So here’s how, in no way complete.
Just one way to solve the problem.
mencoder in.avi -o out.avi -ovc lavc -oac copy -lavcopts vbitrate=400:vpass=1
Now, what’s very cool about mencoder, is it gives you stats on progress..
Pos: 101.5s 2435f ( 0%) 213.30fps Trem: 27min 628mb A-V:0.036 [320:32]
‘Trem’ is rime remaining, and the mb count is the guess for how big it will be.
As the progress gets further along (beyond 10%), the stats will be more precise.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
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