[clug] transcoding MythTV files to divx or DVD size

Tony and Robyn Lewis beakysnugger at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Dec 10 12:03:47 GMT 2006


Paul wrote:
> I have a 7Gb HD file which I need to shrink down to at-least 4G or 
> even 600Mb, so I need to compress file, and I don't have any Cutlists 
> (AFAIK)...
>
> Any particular output option more reliable... note my export works for 
> a few other files I tested which weren't HD so perhaps something in 
> the stream which is causing encoder to fail.
> Garrg I might if have to try windows utilities...
Tut, sir!

You could try transcode, if you can ever make sense of all the command 
line options.  Or you could try avidemux for a nice gui tool.

Tony



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