Compress an avi file?

[Joel Bryan T. Juliano]

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 10:05 +0200, Nik wrote:
> In article <b43bf2080605122109x7bc29981y625366758d131fde at mail.gmail.com>,
>    Sebastian Bassi <sbassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a big avi file (2.8Gb) I'd like to upload to Google Video. I
> > have memcoder and a lot of video player programs installed in Ubuntu,
> > but I dont know how to encode it to make it smallers, like 600 or 700
> > Mb. It is a 1 hour 45 minutes video.
> 
> I think you could probably re-encode using mencoder.  DVDRip uses this (I
> think) to make vcds - ie a whole film on one or more cds, exactly what you
> want.
> 
> Nik
> 
> 

Have you tried converting your AVI file to OGG Theora?
Ogg Theora can make the filesize much smaller, and can make your video
quality good. 

My testcase is a 300x200 mpg file, which is pixelized when I fullscreen
it, but when I convert it to OGG Theora, I can't barely see any box
pixels.

And you don't need any codecs to install to play it, because it's a
default install in Ubuntu.

Download ffmpeg2theora from http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ and convert
your avi file by running # ffmpeg2theora ./file.avi

-- 
Joel Bryan T. Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com>
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