[Novalug] video conversion

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Wed May 18 11:47:52 EDT 2011


On Tue, 17 May 2011, Keith Howell wrote:

My favorite video management and conversion program is AVIDEMUX.

You can do a lot with it including changing proportions of the image, 
exporting all the frames into jpegs and converting between many formats.

Overall I think it is one of the best open source programs I have 
encountered.

It has a gui front end.



> There are several conversion programs. You wwill have to find the best
> combination for your input files.
>
> Some suggestions:
>
> Bombono
> handbrake
> mencoder
> ffmpeg (and/or winff)
> qdvdauthor
>
> ffmpeg is probably the tool you want to use to convert the avi to a
> format suitable for a DVD and then use one of the DVD authoring tools to
> create a menu system to view them in your DVD player.
>
> Here is how I do some of mine:
>
> a)  ffplay -stats abcd.avi
>
> 	this gives you the format of the avi file. ie:
>
>    Duration: 00:02:26.99, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 9559 kb/s
>    Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj422p, 640x480, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc
>    Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_mulaw, 22050 Hz, mono, s16, 176 kb/s
>    6.39 A-V: -0.015 aq=   27KB vq= 1297KB sq=    0B
>
> b) ffmpeg -i filename.avi -target ntsc-dvd -s 640x480 -b 5000k -ab 320k
> -y -mbd rd -trellis 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 filename.mpg
>
> 	this converts the avi file to an mpg format that the dvd authoring
> tools can use. You will have to tinker with the options to get the right
> quality and size ratio you want to have on the finished product.
>
> Some of the authoring tools will allow you to use avi files directly and
> they will run the transcode process as part of the authoring steps.
> However, you don't have much control over the conversion and sometime
> the video comes out wrong.
>
> Now I fire up qdvdauthor and build my DVD image for later burning onto
> the real media.
>
>

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