[Info-vax] Transcoding, was: Re: Webinar "AUTOGEN and SYSGEN"

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-04-23, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:01:52 +0000, VAXman- wrote:
>
>> In article
>> <21174771.362.1335128359339.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums at vbdx11>, Bart
>> Zorn <bart.zorn at gmail.com> writes:
>>>{...snip...}
>>>I beg to differ. I consider the actual content of my post my observation
>>>about the content of the webinar, more specifically the error on slide 8
>>>of the presentation.
>> 
>> Since there's a limited audience that can view this .WMV to comment, the
>> only comments available seem to be about the audience limitation. ;)
>
> So will MP4 do? 
>
> My copy is lurking at 120MB.  Ideas to reduce that welcome.
>

Try using mencoder (it's a part of mplayer).

I use it under Linux to downsample DVD episodes into a format suitable
for playing on my portable media player. I've never tried using it to
convert from MP4 however, so I don't know what issues you may have.

Simon.

PS: Make sure you keep the source file around for a while, even if you
don't think you need it anymore after transcoding as not all transcoded
videos play equally well on all devices. Personal experience here. :-)

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