12FPS is cartoon-grade, 24FPS for motion pictures. Much lower than 12 and you'll probably flicker and jerk.
However, MPEG4 is a highly efficient differential compression scheme, so you may see a lot of benefit just getting it out of WMV. Or not, since I don't recall if WMV is using MPEG compression already. Especially since I think it's one of those blanket schemes where MPEG may be one of several options within the system. Anyway, cutting down on the precision of the image is probably going to do more for you than cutting the frame rate. Most of the stuff I've done like this was when I had an HD source and was simply trying to crunch down to 480 pixels, so YMMV. Tim On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 19:20 -0500, rob mckennon wrote: > So.. I have a .wmv file that was made from a video camera and I want to > upload to a website so it can be viewed. I'm thinking that I should > use mencoder to convert it to mpeg4? > > The original file is just over 2GB. If I cut down on the fps (frames > per second) that should help reduce the file size (I hope). > > So I guess my question is: what would be the minimum fps I would want > to use so it doesn't look like crap? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
