Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Martins Steinbergs <mar@××.lv>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:23:02
Message-Id: 200512151551.52718.mar@ml.lv
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5 by Iain Buchanan
1 > >
2 > > transcode and mencoder will do it, but ffmpeg is easier to use. Less
3 > > arcane options and a readable man page make life a lot easier for ffmpeg
4 > > users :)
5 >
6 > $ man ffmpeg
7 > No manual entry for ffmpeg
8 >
9 > `ffmpeg` produces some help info, but then
10 > -vcodec codec force video codec ('copy' to copy stream)
11 > doesn't say what the actual codecs are...
12
13 hit plain 'ffmpeg' without any option and you will get full help
14
15 or
16 ffmpeg -formats show available formats, codecs, protocols, ...
17
18 or online
19 http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-doc.html
20
21 by the way, hadn't use ffmpeg for long time and just checked and looks like
22 mine copy is broken, encodes with quality setting in thousands so its now
23 good tool to fill the free space on storage, and clock speeds up. will
24 investigate later.
25
26 martins
27 --
28 Linux 2.6.14-ck6 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
29 15:34:21 up 11:46, 5 users, load average: 1.15, 1.07, 1.02