On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:09:10 Carl Turney wrote:
I've got a 3.9 GB video file that I want to reduce significantly in size.
I noticed the Nautilus >> Properties >> Audio/Video Properties on this file said the resolution was 1920 by 1080.
So I searched the web and found the suggestion to use mencoder -- which was already installed in my system.
Set the resolution to 960 x 540 and expected an output file of a bit more than 1/4 of the original file size.
Quite surprised to see that the output increased in size to 4.8 GB!
Any hints on how I can resize the resulting file down to about a quarter of the original?
http://etbe.coker.com.au/2013/02/15/conversion-video-files/ The above blog post documents what I was doing in this regard early last year. Since then I've tweaked my Makefile a bit and am using the -b option and a similar option to set the audio bitrate. When I'm at home I'll look at my latest scripts and see if it's worth another blog post, if not I'll just attach my Makefile to this list. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/