Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera
> broke, and I had to get
> one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for.  I wound up with a
> fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera
> and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive.  The problem
> is that its videos are MP4s,
> which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing
> about transcoding.   My previous
> camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks
> browsers.  The MP4s are huge
> and in a weakly supported format.

You might want to check out kdenlive which is a full-featured video
editor (using mlt as backend) but includes a simple transcoding
function and several presets for many different formats (with the
added bonus that you'll be able to edit your raw video should you so
desire).