[MPlayer-users] Reducing the size of movie

[ephemeron at softhome.net]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:28:13 -0200,
Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> 
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello.
> 
> I have recorded a movie from my TV card using mencode
> using the command line
> 
> mencoder \
>     -tv on:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:norm=palm:width=640:height=480:chanlist=us-cable:channel=9 \
>     -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=6000 \
>     -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=96 \
>     -o mymovie.avi
> 
> and finished with a file of 4805436474 bytes. Now I want to
> reduce it a file fitting on a CD (700 MB). How can I do that?

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Unless it's a digital broadcast I think you can get away with
reencoding using -ssf lgb=X:cgb=X (X being the amount of Gaussian
blur, range of 1-100). In my case the TV reception is often so
*bad* that blurring the TV capture actually improves my reencoded
copy.