Video Conversion in Linux for DVD Creation
Luke -Jr
luke at dashjr.org
Tue Aug 14 09:48:09 CDT 2007
On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Leo Mauler wrote:
> A friend of mine recently converted my 3 hour wedding
> video from VHS to AVI for me. I've trimmed what I
> could, but the remaining video is still two and
> one-half hours long.
Why are you doing VHS->"AVI"->MPEG-2? Unless your AVI is raw uncompressed
video (hundreds of GB, IIRC), doing this is going to lose quite a significant
bit of quality.
> I have Googled for how to fit 2-1/2 hours of AVI video
> onto a 2 hour DVD. All I have been able to find is
> information on how to convert 85 minutes of AVI video
> into one conventional 4.7GB DVD, which isn't what I'm
> looking for.
For something so specific, you obviously just aren't going to find a
step-by-step howto. You'll need to just take your numbers and calculate the
bitrate you need manually.
> The mencoder documentation isn't much help either: it doesn't quite tell you
> which commands affect bitrates and how to set constant bitrates to control
> file size.
vbitrate=<value>
Specify bitrate (pass 1/2) (default: 800).
Doesn't get much clearer than that...
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