The Dark Art of Video Codecs

Encode as mpeg2 audio mpeg1 video-

ffmpeg

INPUT        :-i s.avi 
AUDIO CODEC  :-acodec mp2 
VIDEO CODEC  :-vcodec mpeg1video 
VIDEO BITRATE:-vb 1000k 
OUTPUT       :s.mpg

ffmpeg -i s.avi -acodec mp2 -vcodec mpeg1video -vb 1000k s.mpg

Ben Rousch Video Editing References:

http://clusterbleep.net/blog/2010/06/25/video-editing-on-linux-part-1/ http://brousch.orthicomp.com/files/video-editing-on-linux-part1.pdf

Anything -> MPEG2
    ffmpeg -i  -vcodec mpeg2video -sameq -r  -acodec mp2 outfile.mpg

Anything -> MPEG4
    ffmpeg -i  -vcodec mpeg4 -sameq -r  -acodec libfaac outfile.mp4

Anything -> H264
    ffmpeg -i  -vcodec libx264 -sameq -r  -acodec libfaac outfile.mp4

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