From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Mar 29 0:52:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from fep1-orange.clear.net.nz (fep1-orange.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3448D14BD2 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:45:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crh@outpost.co.nz) Received: from outpost.co.nz (d5-u32.wgtn.clear.net.nz [203.97.53.32]) by fep1-orange.clear.net.nz (1.5/1.11) with ESMTP id UAA26508; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:45:25 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199903290845.UAA26508@fep1-orange.clear.net.nz> Received: (qmail 14076 invoked from network); 29 Mar 1999 06:00:40 -0000 Received: from officedonkey.acme.gen.nz (HELO officedonkey) (192.168.1.3) by evil-smelling-bugger.acme.gen.nz with SMTP; 29 Mar 1999 06:00:40 -0000 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Craig Harding" Organization: Outpost Digital Media Ltd To: Christoph Kukulies Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:00:17 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: off topic - video compression .avi -> .mov Reply-To: crh@outpost.co.nz Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199903281801.UAA24850@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I have produced a large .avi file > (http://hub.freebsd.org/~kuku/xris.avi.gz 65 MB/120 MB) > and would like to compress it or convert it to something more > efficient. > > (It shows me sitting at the hammond organ and playing some Jazz, > btw) > > So if anyone knows how to get that file smaller while keeping > as much information as possible please contact me (in email) The best codec to use is probably an mpeg one (although the sorenson codec in QT3 seems nice). I don't know about solutions available for FreeBSD, although possible Xing make a linux mpeg encoder which would run under FreeBSD. The other alternatives for Windreck will cost you - there don't seem to be decent free mpeg video encoders available. I've got a Mpeg encoding subsystem (DVMPEG) for Windoze which I use on our video edit suite - it'll do mpeg 1 and 2 when I export from Adobe Premiere and does a very nice job. If you really can't find anywhere burn it to a CD and stick it in the mail and I'll convert it for you - at the moment our Net connection is too expensive to make downloading it an option. -- C. -- Craig Harding Head of Postproduction, Outpost Digital Media Ltd "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message