I'd like to encode uncompressed video into compressed avi or mpeg4. Was wondering what program I should look at getting to do such a task. Videos are between 3 and 20 minutes long, and range anywhere from 1.3 to 10 GBs in uncompressed .avi form (fraps).
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FFMPEG is yet another free tool to do this. It might be easier to answer these questions if you asked more specifically. Do you want a graphical tool? Command line? Batch operation? Windows? Linux? Mac?
FFMPEG is all of those except graphical, given simple scripting for batch operation.
I am a fan of Format Factory on Win systems
Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter. Provides functions below:
- All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
- All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
- All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
- Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
- MP4 files support
- iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
- Supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.
Format Factory's Feature:
- support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
- Repair damaged video and audio file.
- Reducing Multimedia file size.
- Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.
- Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
- DVD Ripper.
- Supports 50 languages
OS requirements: All 32 windows OS
And yes, it runs on Server 2008 R2 so 64-Bit should not be an issue (8 core i7 server)
Quicktime 7 Pro does that. It is available on Mac OS X and Windows but not on Linux.
I use FFmpeg on Ubuntu Linux to convert AVIs to MP4s. It reduces the file size by about 90% and the quality is OK. I use it for all my Youtube uploads.
Here's the command I use. Replace MVI_0963
(referenced twice) with the name of your video file.
ffmpeg -i MVI_0963.AVI -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libfaac -ab 128kb -s 640x480 -b 1200kb -mbd rd -flags +4mv+aic -trellis 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -g 300 -pass 1/2 -r 25 mvi_0963.mp4
If you are not intimidated by a complicated interface and fine-grained control, MediaCoder is the way to go.