[MPlayer-users] reencoding avis

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:40:30PM +1300, anton wrote:
> Hey,
> I can't seem to find out how to do this... I have some .avi files that 
> my digital camera spits out. I want to reduce the size of them so they 
> can be put on my website for family and friends ( and no, sorry, no 
> spice there!). The audio is at 88kbps (in mp3) at the moment and I 
> reckon I should be able to get it down to 48 or so. How do I do this? I 
> thought I might be able to use lame and just redo it, but evidently not. 
> Should I try and put it to ac3 with the lavc audio and then redo it back 
> into mp3 with lame?
> Any ideas welcome.
> Cheers

Why do you want to shrink audio? 48kbit mp3 will sound horrible, and a
good 90% or more of the file size is video anyway... You'd be better
off reencoding the video and leaving audio alone.

Rich