thoggen file too large for dvd

wyndetygre · 03-03-2008, 08:38 PM

Is there a way to shrink a thoggen produced ogg video file?

Gnomebaker is telling me that the drive capacity is 4.38GB. It says the file is 4.46GB.

thanks for your help

Hammett · 03-04-2008, 02:32 PM

You can use mencoder to re-encode the video at a slightly lower resolution to make it fit into a DVD

I use a script I found on the internet to make some videos smaller to put them into my Nokia N95 8GB to play.

Code:

mencoder "$1" -idx -noodml -ofps 24 -vf scale=320:240 -ovc lavc -ffourcc DX50 -srate 44100 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128:mode=0 -o New."$1"

I guess you'd be able to use this little script as a base to modify your file.

wyndetygre · 03-04-2008, 09:38 PM

Thanks for the reply.

One reason I put up with Thoggen's slow speed is that the output quality is outstanding. I've had pretty bad luck with mencoder output quality. That's probably my fault because I don't understand all the flags. I don't even know which codec to use.

I tried streaming the output to a file using VLC (which uses mencoder) and the results were pretty shabby.

If nothing else will work I can use Thoggen again at a slightly lower quality.

wyndetygre · 03-05-2008, 08:06 AM

I tried again using VLC. Streaming the output to a file using the highest video bitrate resulted in a very good quality video file.
The size was reduced to 3.8 GB so the problem is solved. This is an excellent solution as I use VLC as my main video player anyway.