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Hi, Emokid,
I mucked about with mencoder, ffmpeg, and quite a few other things with what I would gently refer to as less than unqualified success. I did succeed in burning a few DVDs from DV-camera output, using dvdauthor, its associate spumux, and good old gimp.
Then I got a FLIPVIDEO camera, which outputs AVIs, and I used Adept (apt-get, or aptitude, would no doubt be fine) to acquire qdvdauthor, which is sufficiently willing to take charge of me that I now can steal some of its scripts and do stuff that I should perhaps have been able to figure out.
But I have now burned DVDs with cascading menus, image buttons, text buttons, and I'm ambitious to try movie-clip-buttons.
Hi, Emokid,
I mucked about with mencoder, ffmpeg, and quite a few other things with what I would gently refer to as less than unqualified success.
Yes mencoder has a lot of features and you need to know what you are doing to get good results. However, I do use mencoder all the time for avi to mpeg. Here is a sample command:
Well, there are many more options that will allow you to tailor the output, check the man page. My simple example was just to illustrate that it doesn't have to be as complicated as the commands posted above for mencoder (which I find rather ridiculous). avidemux will output the same quality results as ffmpeg with the same options, so if you prefer that would be easiest.
Note that you can also improve compression (i.e. reduce final size a little) by telling ffmpeg to make two passes, first one to get stats on the file and second one to actually process the file.
NB: make sure that any parameters you give the first pass, you also give the second pass.
You can also easily vary the output size by varying the quality of either video or audio, e.g. to reduce the audio channel size by forcing (max of) 128k bits, use the following:
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