Ralph & Michael, Thanks for the thoughts/tips/ideas for what I'm trying t accomplish! I really appreciate it! And thanks for the GREAT program! In the past, I've used dvbcut for cutting MPEG from the stream out of my video capture card (a PVR-250) and it's worked flawlessly.
The stream I'm trying to convert/cut now is from a new digital camera we just got (Canon Powershot ES850 IS). How can I tell what type of codec it is? When I float the cursor over the file name (the .avi file), it gives me a type: Microsoft AVI Video (ARGH!) and Video Codec says: mjpg, Audio Codec: Microsoft PCM. I'm a relative newbie when it comes to this video editing stuff in Linux but so far, I've been able to get by! And yes, I have messed with AVIDEMUX but not recently. That is quite the complicated ffmpeg line but I shall give it a try and see what kind of results it gives me. Learned a lot more about ffmpeg from your message as well! Thanks! On 7/30/07, Ralph Glasstetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, 30. Juli 2007 16:54 schrieb Footer: > > Hey, hey, I never thought about that! Convert it to mpg with ffmpeg > > on the command line and then use DVBCut? > The only way, if you insist in using DVBcut for cutting an AVI... ;-) > > BTW, what codec was used for that AVI-video? DIVX? > Ever tried AVIDEMUX(2) for cutting it? > > > I just tried that and DVBCut > > didn't like it too much. > You used probabely the wrong switches...? > > > But I was able to shrink the file from 168MB > > to 6MB which is acceptable to me. > That's nearly impossible with adequate quality! > > > Would be nice to further cut it as > > an mpg but I don't know how much more time I'm willing to invest to do > > that. For what it's worth, here's the line I used to shrink the file > > (it was 640x480 and this command cut it down to 320x240): > > > > ffmpeg -i input_file_640x480.avi -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 > > output_file_320x240.mpg > OK, with a bitrate of only 500 bits/sec it's no wonder that you ended up with > just 6 MB. Could you really see a proper video...? :) > You have to specifiy "-b 500k" if you want KILObits/sec!!! > > But with MPEG2 this also would give a rather bad quality... are you really > sure that it's a MPEG2 video in an AVI container? I never saw that... and > with your command line you didn't changed the codec.... > > > Would welcome any other ideas!!! > > For cutting with DVBcut I would convert the video to a rather large bitrate > MPEG2 stream to preserve the quality as much as possible (without changing > the resolution!)... maybe with "-target DVD -s 640x480"... and additionally a > "-acodec copy", if the audio is already coded in MP2/AC3 48kHz. > But if not, you have to specify "-acodec mp2 -ab196k -ar 48000", otherwise > DVBcut probabely does not recognize the Audio channel. > > After cutting you can shrink it down again to a AVI/DIVX with [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > and [EMAIL PROTECTED]/22kHz or whatever... > > I usually use: > ffmpeg -i INFILE -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -b 800k -g 250 -bf 2 -s 640x480 -aspect > 4:3 -acodec mp3 -ab 128k -ar 44100 OUTFILE > > ciao, > Ralph > > > > > On 7/30/07, Michael Riepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Footer wrote: > > > > Well ... both? > > > > > > I doubt that will ever happen. Output, maybe. > > > > > > > Although I wouldn't mind taking AVI input and making > > > > it MPEG output ... When I try open an AVI file for editing, it says: > > > > "Unknown file type" > > > > > > DVB material uses MPEG-2 container formats (PS/TS) exclusively. There > > > was (and still is) no need to support other input formats, unless you > > > want to turn dvbcut into a general-purpose video cutting software. > > > > > > That, on the other hand, will require massive changes to the code. I'm > > > afraid you'll have to live with AVI<->MPEG converters. > > > > > > Michael. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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