From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ED4sW-0005LR-7E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:42:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j87IbKA8009562; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 18:37:20 GMT Received: from smtp17.wxs.nl (smtp17.wxs.nl [195.121.6.13]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j87IVF5R020086 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 18:31:15 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp17.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IMG00171M9X2W@smtp17.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:34:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:34:36 +0200 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid? In-reply-to: <431F2F1D.9030308@buanzo.com.ar> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <431F32BC.8040909@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050803) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <431F2F1D.9030308@buanzo.com.ar> X-Archives-Salt: 677b4cf1-849f-4e93-a511-eaf43abbade2 X-Archives-Hash: c784cad245d1bea09facafb6a14c1fd9 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: > Hi people, > > I was wondering, do you have any pointers to transcode an mpeg file > to an xvid? The original is a +4gb file, and I need to create a good > quality of aprox. 100mb xvid file. I don't think this is realistic... you are trying to reduce the file size by over 98% and want 'good quality' as well? I don't see quite how that is going to happen, A standard DVD can be reduced to the size of 1 CD (700 MB) or half that (350-400 MB) using Xvid or Divx, but that's still 4-7x bigger than what you're trying to get from the more-or-less same size starting point, and to even do that much you have to make some sacrifices (like removing menus and extras, which is essentially ripping out data from the original file by the handful, or reducing image size, which may affect quality). Is this 100MB a strict limit on the final file size (if you even can do it, it's going to be the size of a postage stamp, though possibly the most beautiful postage stamp ever seen)? Is all the data in the original file strictly necessary? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list