[plug] video editing software

[Michael Holland]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:

> I have a video I open it in virtual dub I then change it to divx then I
> save as an .avi.  When I did a google it came up with video editing
> software for that so my apologies for not explaining what I was doing.
>
> You might then say why is it that I'm doing that well I have a dvd
> player that plays divx, avi's and mpeg's.  However sometimes it doesn't
> work so if I (put word here) into avi or mpeg again it works.

Thanks for explaining.  Try taking a look at

  http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

It is a great media player, has documentation in many languages, and
includes an encoder program for converting / recoding.

The documents should explain the difference between codec (divx,
mpeg2,...) and file format (mpeg, avi, ...) and other issues better than
we can. I think it should solve your problem.
  The manual page is rather intimidating, so I hope the one in your own
langauge is up to date.

  You will want a short script to run 'mencoder' with a suitable set of
parameters to re-code your videos. There are samples in the documents,
or I can send you some.

e.g.   mencoder <filename> -o out.avi -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
  vcodec=mpeg4:vqscale=3:vhq:vbitrate=$bitrate

You might need to rescale it as well.

> No I do not think your time is less valuable than mine but thanks for
> pointing that out.

Just a rhetorical question. I don't really think that you think that ...


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