[MPlayer-users] shrink a movie

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Luke Harrison wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:57:01 -0300
> Andreas Hasenack <andreas at conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> If i were you, I wouldn't re-encode the whole video stream...
> Its useless.. you'll lose alot of quality, try fucking with the audio...

I was just gonna say this... reencoding the video is normally a waste of 
time... and mostly movies are encoded with 128kb/s... just reencode the 
audio part to something like 96... saves you a lot of space.

Greetings
Ralph

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