How to prepare video files for Linux

by Adnan Hadzi

1. Make sure [http://www.avidemux.org Avidemux] or [http://www.http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ ffmpeg] is installed on your computer (see InstallAvidemux).

2. Open a Terminal.

3. Command-line example with Avidemux. For all possible settings and transcoding possibilities please refer to the [http://www.avidemux.org/wki/index.php?title=Main_Page Avidemux manual].

Converting AVI files to VCD

Encoding the audio with libavcodec:

  • avidemux2 --load input.avi --audio-process \ --audio-normalize --audio-resample 44100 --audio-codec MP2 \ --audio-bitrate 224 --output-format PS --video-process \ --vcd-res --video-codec VCD --save output.mpg --quit

4. Alternatively you can use the command-line tool [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg ffmpeg]. For all possible settings and transcoding possibilities please refer to the [http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html ffmpeg manual].

Converge: Prepare4Linux (last edited 2007-10-09 17:26:06 by AdnanHadzi)