Recording mpg's

[technomage]

my biggest problem, making .mpg files from avi (stupid proprietary microshaft 
format!). I'd like to be able to do so, but getting everything to work is 
getting rather pointless of late (changes come faster than the programs 
available to deal with them).

anyone got any suggestions?

On Sunday 05 May 2002 01:15 am, you wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 09:20, Jeff wrote:
> > I don't know what it would take to make DivX using Linux. I haven't began
> > to look there. It does take a bit of reading and trial and error to get
> > it right.
>
> Actually, MPlayer includes mencoder which can make DiVX movies very
> fast. I can get a three pass (audio, video pass-1, video pass-2) DiVX 4
> movies done in about 4.5 hours without copying from the DVD. It builds
> the movies directly from the DVD in the player.
>
> You can make movies in any format mplayer can view. Works good on
> Windows Media Player too although it doesn't like Variable BitRate files
> too much...
>
>
> --codie

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