[SLL] Need advice on Portable Video Compression

[Jay Scherrer]

Convert your audio and video to MP4 (Podcast). Most of your video and 
audio archivers produce with MP4 capabilities.
For example an AVI file of 43 megs will convert to an AVM file 4 megs. 
MP4 is the Pod in Pod casting isn't it?

Jay

Robert Woodcock wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 01:28:14PM -0800, Tim Maher wrote:
>   
>> For the occasion of my book hitting #1 on Amazon (hooray!), I was
>> interviewed by my publisher. The seven minute AVI file that came out
>> of the camcorder was 2+ gigs, which is of course an unwieldy size. I
>> made a copy with VirtualDub using the "Microsoft Video 1" codec, which
>> came to 60 meg, and plays perfectly on the Windows XP box it was made
>> on. However, on some Apple machines I've tried, only the sound comes
>> through--no pictures.
>>
>> VirtualDub also offers Cinepak, Indeo, Techsmith, and other codecs.
>> So one question is what's the most portable kind of compression?
>> Or if the best answer is something like "convert from AVI to MP3",
>> where do I get a utility that does that--on Winbloze or Lunix?
>> Is "Transcode" a good choice?
>>     
>
> I call mencoder (which comes with mplayer) via this script to slim down and
> optionally rotate videos from my Canon digital camera:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> rm -f divx2pass.log
> unset rotate
> if [ "$3" != "" ]; then
>   rotate="-vop rotate=$3"
> fi
> for p in 1 2
> do
>   mencoder $1 $rotate -channels 1 -srate 11025 -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=3:abr:br=32 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=496:vpass=$p -o $2;
> done
>
> It should give you a starting point to tweak various settings for the
> quality you want. You'll want to test the various codecs for compatibility
> with windows/mac/etc.
>