[MPlayer-users] shrink a movie

[Georg Prager]

> Hi, I have some .avi and .mpg videos that don't fit on a CD, barely. They
> are, for example, 710Mb in size.
> I would like to use mencoder to re-encode these videos so that they become
> a specific size. Does somebody have a tip on how to calculate the bit rates
> and do this?
>
> RTFM!!!  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/DOCS
^^^^^^^^^^^

DOCS/encoding.html
Take a look at 3-pass encoding!

Georg