[Gllug] mplayer - compressing video clips for windows

[Sean Burlington]

Hi all,
	for christmas I got a fairly funky digital camera - it not only takes 
good picture but nice video too :)

As a result I have a funny video clip of new baby apparently dancing to 
music (his parents even think his timing is good!) - but it's a 5Mb file 
and only about 20 seconds long (quicktime)

I'd like to put this on the web for friends and family to lagh at but to 
do so I need to compress and or reduce the framerate/image size

I can happliy  do this but the resulting files only seem to work on 
Linux players :(

I could do with some tips on this as all the docs I can find seem to 
refer to people ripping DVD's for thier own use which I very different 
from what I want.

the best results I have so far is


mencoder dscn0250.mov -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vop 
scale=160:120 -ofps 5 -oac pcm  -of avi -o output.avi
4.4M dscn0250.mov
917K output.avi

(This file won't play in M$ windows media player)


One problem is that I can't get mplayer to recognise lamemp3 which I 
have installed in /usr/local

Checking for libmp3lame (for mencoder) ... no

/usr/local/bin/lame
/usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0
/usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so
/usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.la
/usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.a
/usr/local/include/lame
/usr/local/include/lame/lame.h
/usr/local/include/lame.h (I copied this here)

-- 

Sean

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