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. > _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
