Hi Eli, I have no experience in this field whatsoever, but how about the "mencoder" package of the MPlayer project (http://mplayerhq.hu)? You can use it with many codecs such as realplayer (but also free codecs), etc, which are designed for low-end transports.
Erez Hadad On Thursday 20 May 2004 13:56, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello all, > > After buying a video sampling card (Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe, with USB > connection, and not so deluxe), I want to create video clips in a > low-bitrate format which must be highly interchangable (I respect people > who use other operating systems). > > Transcode is great for generating VCD MPEGS, but that's far too high > bitrate. And it also allows to take a cut out of the source video clip, > which is a blessing. But I want the real low-end. > > > This is what I've achieved so far. The following commands give me a VCD: > > transcode -i $original -k -z -y mpeg2enc,mp2enc -F 1 -Z 352x288 -E 44100 > -b 224 -o $tmpfile > tcmplex -o $outfile -i $tmpfile.m1v -p $tmpfile.mpa -m v && rm -f > $tmpfile.m1v $tmpfile.mpa; > > The first command generates a video stream and an audio stream, and the > second mixes them together. Amazingly, it works like a charm! And if you > insist, this is how I make a VCD: > > vcdimager -t vcd2 $outfile > cdrdao write --driver generic-mmc --device 0,0,0 --speed 24 videocd.cue > > OK, so now I want a low-end MPEG? Great, I reduced the bitrate with: > > transcode -i $original -k -z -y mpeg2enc,mp2enc -F 0 -Z 352x288 -E 44100 > -w 128 -b 96 -o $tmpfile > > Note the -w 128 flag, which says video bitrate 128 kbits/sec, and the -b > 96 which gets the audio (mp3) down to 96 kbits/sec. The result was > disappointing twice: First, because the file remained very large. > Second, because the quality was indeed lousy (as expected from a low > bitrate). > > Ideas, anybody? > > Eli -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
