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590751 2007-09-13 08:35:00 A friend of mine asked me to reduce the size of a music video clip she made so she can upload it to myspace, youtube etc.

Easy i thought........ WRONG!!!!!

So what's a good way of reducing the size of a 300Mb 5 minute long .mpeg using OSS on a debian-etch system? Stuffed if i can find one, but hey, what do i know?
personthingy (1670)
590752 2007-09-13 08:40:00 Your after a video encoder, Heres a list of Linux video tools.

www.videohelp.com

I'd start with AviDemux
Metla (12)
590753 2007-09-13 09:56:00 handbrake.m0k.org

Perhaps this will do the job for you.
zqwerty (97)
590754 2007-09-13 10:32:00 The only time I have ever tried this (haven't needed to do it thereafter) I just used ffmpeg... but it is command line Myth (110)
590755 2007-09-13 10:54:00 ffmpeg can transcode almost anything into almost anything else :D. It's the 'swiss army knife' of transcoders.

mplayer/mencoder combo isn't bad either.
Erayd (23)
590756 2007-09-13 21:10:00 Your after a video encoder, Heres a list of Linux video tools.

www.videohelp.com

I'd start with AviDemuxWhat a strange site! Almost every "freeware Linux tool" "can" be downloaded from various sites offering cheap software for windows, or not so cheap software as the case may be.........

Obviously "freeware" and "linux" have been redifined while i slept! :p
personthingy (1670)
590757 2007-09-14 10:37:00 personthingy

Some of this thread (www.mepislovers.org) from Mepis forums may help. ;)
Brooko (8444)
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