Convert a video file to Xvid the easy way
My wife's camera has the ability to take little movie files. It defaults to capturing in MJPEG format which is really huge, and thus I needed a quick way to convert to something smaller (xvid). I was able to convert a 9.9Mb MJPEG file into a 900Kb Xvid file. Here's the quick conversion:
Or you can use lame to encode
Or if you wanna get really crazy you can read the Gentoo Mencoder page which has a crazy amount of info.
mencoder input.mpg -o output.avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=600 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp3:abitrate=64
Or to get a little more complicated here's some code for a multipass Xvid file.
export file=/tmp/input.mpg
mencoder $file -o output.avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -oac copy\
mencoder $file -o output.avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=600 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp3:abitrate=64
Or you can use lame to encode
mencoder $file -o output.avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -oac copy\
mencoder input.mpg -o output.avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=600 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=64
Or if you wanna get really crazy you can read the Gentoo Mencoder page which has a crazy amount of info.