Re: Video compression
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:23:11AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> How can I compress a short video clip - 88 M in qt format - into
> to a size that can be emailed?
>
You could try avidemux. I think it's in the debian-multimedia repo. I'm not positive that it can import qt format, though.
Some tricks to reduce the filesize:
resize the video
reduce the framerate
reduce the audio bitrate (or remove it completely if it's not important)
experiment with different video codecs. I kind of like xvid.
If you want to use a command-line utility, you could try mencoder, ffmpeg,
or ffmpeg2theora. I'm not enough of an expert to give you a good "recipe",
though.
-Rob
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