Re: Video Compression

2015-04-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Thomas H. George: I need an beginer's guide to video compression. The man page for ffmpeg is daunting and I can find no explanations of the tools in libav-tools The whole topic _is_ daunting. The best tool is HandBrake, available in wheezy-backports and testing/sid. I have short avi HD video

Re: Video Compression

2015-04-08 Thread Dan Purgert
On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:30:16 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I need an beginer's guide to video compression. The man page for ffmpeg is daunting and I can find no explanations of the tools in libav-tools I have short avi HD video clips, 1280x720@30fps, which I would like to compress

Video Compression

2015-04-08 Thread Thomas H. George
I need an beginer's guide to video compression. The man page for ffmpeg is daunting and I can find no explanations of the tools in libav-tools I have short avi HD video clips, 1280x720@30fps, which I would like to compress to a size suitable for email attachments. The largest is 196 M, most

Re: video compression?

2014-02-19 Thread Thomas H. George
Thanks for all the helpful comment. After consideration I understand compression will never be a solution for even a moderate size clip. Since I have a domain name I will host a website and upload the clips to the site for my friends to view. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: video compression?

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:22:13PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? Very much doubt it. How long does the video run for? What size is it? I have

Re: video compression?

2014-02-18 Thread Asif Iqbal
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.infowrote: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? why not upload it to your youtube account, make it unlisted and email the link(s)? If it is too big may be chop it in parts and

Re: video compression?

2014-02-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:30:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:22:13PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? Very much

video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Thomas H. George
Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but have not had much success so far. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-02-17 14:23 GMT+01:00 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? enough it's quite vague when referring to audio/video stuff... (eg. what about email attachments size limit of your ISP?) You can compress

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Thomas H. George wrote: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but have not had much success so far. They are both good, but even if you can get the video

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Go Linux
On Mon, 2/17/14, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: Subject: video compression? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 7:23 AM Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? I have found ffmpeg and avidemux

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread David Glover-Aoki
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:23:26 -0500 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? Unless your video is less than a minute long, your video file will be too big to send by email no matter how much you compress

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but have not had much success so far. I like avidemux, but handbrake

RE: Video compression

2009-07-13 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: Thomas H. George [mailto:li...@tomgeorge.info] Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:23 AM Subject: Video compression How can I compress a short video clip - 88 M in qt format - into to a size that can be emailed? Sorry I am late to the party, but if you don't mind adding the debian

Video compression

2009-07-11 Thread Thomas H. George
How can I compress a short video clip - 88 M in qt format - into to a size that can be emailed? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Video compression

2009-07-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:23:11AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: How can I compress a short video clip - 88 M in qt format - into to a size that can be emailed? You could try avidemux. I think it's in the debian-multimedia repo. I'm not positive that it can import qt format, though. Some

Re: Video compression

2009-07-11 Thread lee
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:23:11AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: How can I compress a short video clip - 88 M in qt format - into to a size that can be emailed? You could use an archive program that supports splitting up archives into several parts and send the video in several mails. If