Re: [Hampshire] re-encoding video on linux

Tony Whitmore wrote:
>
> ffmpeg supports bitrate arguments for both video and audio, so try
> specifying them manually. For video it is the -b argument, e.g.
>
> ffmpeg -i file.avi -b 600k output.mpeg
>
> HTH,
>
> Tony
>
>
Great, that is idea, I've moved to using x264 video and -b 1800 which
gives much better quality but still a small file size:

ffmpeg -i rmov0506.avi -b 1800k -vcodec libx264 -acodec libmp3lame mov1.mkv

Thank you!