[plug] Transcoding MPG

[Muskie Teh Otterboi]

Mike Holland wrote:

> 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.
>
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Or better yet, grab VLC (at www.videolan.org) and Transcode to the Handy 
Dandy H.264 Codec, which, by all apects of the thing, is the single best 
video codec ever! (I saw this thing in action, and egads, it's incredible)