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I have some rather large mp4s produced by my phone. They aren't very long, so they're probably not very compressed. What's an example of using a command line Linux tool to transcode one of these to either h.264 or vp8 or vp9, and how can I play with the quality/compression trade-off?
I know it can be done with vlc. I get lost in the documentation though, and I haven't found clear examples in my web searches.
Travis Well
Posted 2016-01-25T09:21:09.023
Reputation: 145
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For example with avconv
avconv -i inputfile.avi -c:v libx264 outputfile.mp4 # to change video coding
avconv -i InFile.avi -ss 00:12:34 -t 00:02:45.6 -c:v copy -c:a mp3 Out.avi
With the 1st you change only the video encoding, with the second you change only the audio encoding (and you extract a piece of 2m45.6s starting from 12m34s...).
You need to have installed the encoders library that you want to use.
Hastur
Posted 2016-01-25T09:21:09.023
Reputation: 15 043