[MPlayer-users] Converted Files Too Big (much bigger than source files)

[Etienne Buira]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 05:53:09PM -0300, Francisco Antonio Vieira Souza wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Could anybody tell me what is wrong with my command regarding the size of
> the generated file?
> I need to convert some videos (.wmv, .asm, .avi and .mov) to FLV videos, at
> the moment they are uploaded, I am using the following command, but the
> generated files are beeing created too much bigger than the original file.

You had some advices using ffmpeg you didn't follow...

> 
> Comamand:
> /usr/local/bin/mencoder SOURCE_FILE.wmv -o OUTPUT_FILE.flv -of lavf -oac
> mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -vf scale=320:240,harddup -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=flv:vqscale=14:keyint=8 -srate 22050 -ofps 30

You don't specify any video bitrate, and you need to.

> 
> File size (source).....: 2.838 Kb
> File size (destination): 5.960 Kb
> 
> MEncoder 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team

Same as for ffmpeg: you're using an old version, update to svn first
please (and you don't need to be root to build a version of ffmpeg
and/or mencoder).

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