Hi All, Russell, thanks much for this post (below). Unfortunately, had a look at that link, and it's way over my head. Can only assume that the code at that link should be copied and saved as a shell script file, then executed? May try the easier-to-understand single-line suggestion from Toby in this thread. Any user-level mailing lists in LUV? Have forgotten way too much about computing and Linux, over the past decade and a half. Cheers, Carl On 24/02/14 17:24, Russell Coker wrote:
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.