[Gllug] mplayer - compressing video clips for windows

[Xander D Harkness]

Sean Burlington wrote:

> 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 

You could try -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=128  for your audio options if 
you get mp3lame working.

Kind regards
Xander


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