Sonia Hamilton wrote:
I've been using Kino to record videos of my BJJ training and
competitions [1]. Kino's all working nicely but I've noticed that the
videos (.avi version 2) are large - too large to record to dvd for backup.
What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would
recommend?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj
Hi Sonia,
FFMPEG and FFMPEG Theora integrate with Kino to provide compression. I use Ogg,
as the open, format but FFMPEG also does MPEG4 - though I am not sure of the
licensing on that. You can also run FFMPEG on its own, but it doesn't have a
graphical interface.
See links from:
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/acs-os-sig.html#slide4>
If you were making a DVD you would need MPEG2 compression (though this is
licensed at the encoder).
I recently came across the AMV format on a portable Multimedia Video Player,
which I documented here:
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/index.shtml#mvp>
Marghanita
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