[ale] opinions needed for MPEG2 conversion

[Preston Boyington]

On 7/11/06, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Tue July 11 2006 11:02 am, Preston Boyington wrote:
> > I have an mpeg file (VCD format) that i edited from my daughters
> > ballet recital. it's 54 meg in size and I had wanted to convert it
> > to something my windows using friends could play.
> >
> > needless to say the file would need to be much smaller to email.
> >
> > while i normally would use something to convert it to DiVX (for
> > myself), some of these people won't have or be able to install
> > additional codecs.
> >
> > i know they can play wmv's, but i don't know how i would convert to
> > that format using Linux.
> >
> > is there an open format that i could use that plays easily on
> > Windows?
> >
> > any help will be much appreciated.
>
> mplayer, or Windows Media Player, will play most MPG/MPEG/VCD files.
> You aren't going to be able to squish it small enough to email without
> losing almost all of the resolution. Why not just create a VCD that is
> playable on most DVD players, and send it to them in the mail?
> I use tovid to convert most of my videos to a format that K3B can use
> to make a VCD..
>
>
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some of the people will get VCDs, but there are a couple of others
that just want to view it once or so.

i clipped just one segment (about 3 minutes long) and it is still 30.8
meg.  the video is 352x240 so it could be a bit smaller.  the 224 kbps
audio could easily be dropped to 48kbps (think shrill little kids
voices recorded with a camcorder microphone).

mainly i want then to see my daughter "go freestyle" and ham it up.
she was 3 at the time...

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Preston