encoding video at low bitrates, any suggestions?

[hurtstotalktoyou]

Hey all.

I want to perform a (hopefully) simple task. I have a bunch of high-quality (and hence LARGE) video files which I would like to convert to smaller, lower-quality videos for viewing on my Android device (using Moboplayer). I've tried Avidemux, but I must be doing something wrong because it gives me larger-size files with lower-quality output. I hear ffmpeg is good in command line. But I don't currently speak ffmpeg.

So does anyone know a solution? Preferably something I can do in a single command in Terminal?

Thanks!

[shantiq]

Hey all.

I want to perform a (hopefully) simple task. I have a bunch of high-quality (and hence LARGE) video files which I would like to convert to smaller, lower-quality videos for viewing on my Android device (using Moboplayer). I've tried Avidemux, but I must be doing something wrong because it gives me larger-size files with lower-quality output. I hear ffmpeg is good in command line. But I don't currently speak ffmpeg.

So does anyone know a solution? Preferably something I can do in a single command in Terminal?

Thanks!

ok there hurt


so yes ffmpeg perfect tool for this task


try this for bulk

for f in *.wmv; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -b 400k -s cif -ab 96k "${f%.wmv}.mp4"; done

to try on single file

ffmpeg -i yourfile.wmv -b 400k -s cif -ab 96k yourandroidfile.mp4

i chose wmv but change to match your original extension

-b is for video bitrate
-ab audio bitrate
-s is frame size choose from

-s size
Set frame size. The format is wxh (ffserver default = 160x128, ffmpeg default = same as
source). The following abbreviations are recognized:

sqcif
128x96

qcif
176x144

cif 352x288

4cif
704x576

16cif
1408x1152

qqvga
160x120

qvga
320x240

vga 640x480

svga
800x600

xga 1024x768

uxga
1600x1200

cga 320x200

ega 640x350

hd480
852x480

hd720
1280x720

hd1080
1920x1080

Personally would pick mkv as final extension but i see this only works on Android 4.0 or higher so i picked mp4 as i did not know what you have

[hurtstotalktoyou]

Awesome! Thanks so much!

For some reason the m4p extension didn't work, so I used mpeg instead. Any further suggestions there?

Otherwise it worked great! Thanks again!

[shantiq]

mp4 not m4p [if that is the problem]