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Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)



Simon Jolle sjolle:
> 
> 1) Its very generic command line to convert videos. What would you
> improve? The size is much bigger than the original FLV :(

Why do you convert in the first place? Re-encoding files with a lossy
codec can only degrade their quality, no matter what bitrate you are
using.

> 2) Is there a real open source format what I should prefer? Can you say
> something about its quality?

AFAIK the only "real open source format" is Ogg Theora. Which codec
yields the best quality depends a little bit on the bitrate you are
using. H.264 is generally a good choice, though. You can use ffmpeg
(from debian-multimedia.org) for this, too.

J.
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