Re: [MLUG] video compression

["Scott Hussey" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Miller" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
> To: "MLUG membership" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 2:37 AM
> Subject: [MLUG] video compression
>
>
> > My digital video camera stores raw video on tapes that I transfer to my
> > hard drive where they consume about 13 GB/hr .avi files.  I would like to
> > retain all the information in the original files somehow and be able to
> > reuse the digital tapes, but the files are too big to fit on a DVD.  I
> > compressed a 677 MB avi file using gzip, but the resulting .avi.gz file
> > was still 599 MB, and it took a long time to compress.
> >
> > Maybe I can just process the .avi files in the usual way to make video
> > DVDs without experiencing a noticeable loss of video or audio quality. Do
> > any of you have experience with this?

AVI is just a container. It depends on the video codec used to within
the AVI container. At 13 GB/hr, you should have enough info to
transcode it to mp4 without noticeable degradation. Check out ffmpeg,
I've used it to transcode stuff and it is pretty easy.

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Scott Hussey
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http://www.alexusstudios.com

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