Author: Peter Salisbury Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: [Hampshire] Advice: transcoding HD video for the web
2008/6/6 Brad Rogers <brad@???>: > On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:14:57 +0100
> Tim <xendistar@???> wrote:
>
> Hello Tim,
>
>> As much as I hate to say it .wmv has probably the most widely
>> available seeing
>
> .wm? is just a wrapper for other stuff (mp3, mpeg, etc.) so saving the
> video as an MPEG would be favourite, IMO.
>
This was the recipe I used to put a DVD extract onto the net, in case
it's of interest:
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Use avidemux
Video: Mpeg4, single pass, quantize 5 (higher numbers less quality, 10
more or less unwatchable)
Filter: Mplayer resize (from 704x576 Pixel AR 16:9) to 296x136 (both
final dimensions must be multiples of 8, ratio to keep over-all aspect
ratio of movie with 1:1 pixel AR)
Audio: Lame, 80k CBR (lower numbers lower quality)
Format: AVI
This encodes about 20 minutes TV programme into about 50MB (2.5MB per minute).
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By the way avi / flv is just another 'wrapper' so you still have to
chose a&v codecs.
