[oclug] Movie format convert

[Kevin Everets]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:28:25PM -0500, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:

> I'm pretty sure mplayer/mencoder can do it, though it may involve an
> interim step, like dumping audio only (via -ao pcm) and then
> compressing it using oggenc.

mplayer/mencoder can do it, though for .wmv, probably only on x86 and
using the w32codecs package (ie, using x86-only dlls).

> You do know that you'll only get the audio, right?  Ogg Vorbis is,
> AFAIK, audio only.

Ogg Vorbis is audio only, but Ogg Theora (basically a rebadged VP3) is
actually quite decent for video and mplayer/mencoder can use this
format right now.  In lieu of that, one could use Xvid or pretty much
any video codec combined with Ogg Vorbis audio.

Kevin.