[MPlayer-users] reencoding avis

[anton]

anton wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> Thanks guys,
> The documentation is not available on the site at present, and I am 
> unfortunately too stupid to know what half of your instructions mean, in 
> spite of hanging out on this list a while back for a few months...
> Anyway,
> Anton

so I decided to look on all of the 10 pages google turned up

http://www.edginet.org/techie/linux/canon_divx.html

was EXACTLY what I wanted - why ask the experts, eh?
Anton
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