linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] how to learn to convert a video

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] how to learn to convert a video

I did download sophie1.avi
to the hd
and later we ll check it on old win pcs.

Am 09.01.2016 um 15:09 schrieb Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies]:
> Ok, try http://srobb.net/sophie1.avi
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Thank You.

>
> Size wise, it is a bit smaller than the one I did before.
> I used a different format which in theory should play on Windows.
>
> If it works the command would be
>
> ffmpeg -i myfile.mpg -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -acodec wmav2 myfile.avi
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Thank You.

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> As I said, -vcodec and -acodec are the same as using -c:v and -c:a (which
> can also be written -codec:v and -codec:a)
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Thank You.

>
> See if that works, if not, I'll try some other things.
> By the way, you can always get a youtube account and upload it there, they'
> do their own transcoding so that it can be seen in a web browser.
>
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Thank You for the advice
with Youtube.

Reagrds Sophie

Public Videos we publish on our homepages
but not all videos should be shown in public
but for the members of the workshop.

Thank You again, Scott.