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I'm searching for a tutorial on how to convert my videos (AVI, WMV and MKV formats) to a format that offers both good quality and small size.

The audio part should be 128 kbit/s mp3 lame.

I'm using Fedora 14 with an rpmfusion repo. It would be especially nice to be able to batch-convert the AVIs.

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I apoligize, but the only answers you will get to this question are of people's preference. Start by comparing all the common video codecs (Doom9 and Wikipedia are good places to start), as only you know your true needs. There are many video codecs which provide "good quality", and many container formats which are supported by many computers. Voted to close. – Breakthrough Feb 11 '11 at 17:26
@Breakthrough: I agree -- down this path lies holy wars. – afrazier Feb 11 '11 at 17:39
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video quality depends on the codec, not the format.

Use mencoder in linux.

search "mencoder howto". for example: http://www.axllent.org/docs/video/mencoder_dvd_to_mpeg4

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It also depends on the quality of what you start with. – martineau Feb 11 '11 at 22:53
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