[plug] Transcoding MPG

[Mike Holland]

Onno Benschop wrote:
> 
> Stuffed if I can figure out how to do this.
> 
> I have a 40Mb .mpg file (which goes for 4 minutes.) It features a 44KHz=20
> stereo audio stream and comes from a business card CD.

40MB or 40Mbit?  Does it contain video, or audio only?
What format? .mpg can mean many things.

> I (think I) want to do a two-pass transcode using ffmpeg, but I cannot=20
> seem to make it work. I want to get it to the point where the .mpg is=20
> transcoded into a 5Kbit/s stream - to make it web-downloadable, 

Isn't ffmpeg a video tool? You want video in 5kbps?!
Try mplayer/mencoder to encode mpeg in AVI.