.avi is not "a" format, exactly--it is a container whose contents can
be compressed using a variety of codecs. Thus, compression rates can
vary quite a bit--but if a codec is used that is not common, it is
also possible that the receiver may not be able to play the file.
I was unaware that YouTube would accept or play video files longer
than about ten minutes--but I am not the person to ask about YouTube,
as I have never uploaded files to it.
There are other, much more advanced video file formats by the way--but
again, you run the risk of not being able to have them played by many
who may wish to.
Another program that is quite good for both playing and format
conversion is the VLC media player. Over time, I have come to use it
for most of my video purposes, as it is far less frustrating than
trying to guess which player or converter will work with a given file.
David
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 07:59:18PM -0000, grantrocket2 wrote:
> I have been using mint 9 with kdenlive to edit 720p hd video. I rendered my
4minute long project as .avi (600 some mb) and its takeing forever to upload to
youtube. Is there any better compressed file format? If so what wouuld be the
termanal command to convert it? Or the format to re render it as?
>
I don't know about better formats--avi seems fairly standard (though I
don't know about YouTube), but ffmpeg will convert just about anything.
In its simplest form, the command is ffmpeg -i myfile.myformat
myfile.newformat. For example:
ffmpeg -in movie.avi movie.jpg
There are all sorts of parameters one can give it--the man page is like
a long book. :) There are some decent tutorials around, such as
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