Video format conversion in Linux
To stream video content using Video View Portlet, I had to re-encode some videos to flv format. This is pretty simple in Linux:
$ mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -o out.flv in.avi
-oac means Output Audio Codec and -ovc means Output Video Codec. The various options for -oac:
| copy | no encoding, just streamcopy. |
| pcm | Encode to uncompressed PCM. |
| mp3lame | Encode to MP3 (using LAME). |
| lavc | Encode with a libavcodec codec. |
The options for -ovc:
| copy | no encoding, just streamcopy. |
| raw | Encode to an arbitrary uncompressed format (use ’-vf format’ to select). |
| lavc | Encode with a libavcodec codec. |
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