ffmpeg, mencoder, and transcode are obvious tools for this, but getting nice enough results can be pretty tricky... lots of codecs, lots of options... very little time...
avidemux is a very nice gui app that is meant to be "virtualdub for linux" - but the first avi that I tried to compress from 2.1GB to 700MB, had playback problems due to bad handling of B-frames in the original clip. YMMV. I'm currently using ripmake - a perl script that generates a makefile that runs transcode and other tools. It's rather easy to use, and it can also generate a sample clip, so that you can tune the parameters before running the complete job: ripmake -c 1 clip.avi avi # "-c 1" selects one cd target size make -f clip-avi.mak rip All tools courtesy of the debian-mutimedia repo. Have fun, Avi. Serena Cantor wrote: > Thanks! > > I'm considering first convert it to AVI, then convert it to real media > but converting avi take too much time and space, > besides, real media is not open source > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, > news, photos & more. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
