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for fl in *.mov \ do \ mencoder ${fl} -o ${fl/mov/avi} -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc \ mplayer -ao pcm -vo null -vc dummy -dumpaudio -dumpfile ${fl/mov/mp3} ${fl/mov/avi} \ #rm ${fl/mov/avi} \ done

EDIT: The last time I tried the above movie conversion command it hung after done with this character > apparently it was expecting more from the command. Sorry -- I'm too rookie to fix it -- search around.

However, ffmpeg is perfectly up to the task. The syntax that I have been using (specifying a 60FPS frame rate) is the following:

This works a charm and really shrinks the file size. My original 17 second clip in its original .mov file format weighed in at 8.5MB. Following conversion the avi clip weighed in at 855.5KB.

Of course, it looks like ass, but that's what you get. If you know a better way, or better ffmpeg conversion syntax, then hook us all up.

ADDENDUM - 12 may 2007: Well, someone recently pointed me to this video converter, WinFF. I tried it out, love it and and am happy to report that it gets the debiantutorials.org seal-of-approval for wickedness. Right on.

Not able to view video
written by Hemal mehta, April 09, 2008

Audio plays perfectly but there is nothing in video

maybe u can user '-sameq'
written by keith3d, April 10, 2008

i just read the ffmpeg document and found out you can retain the same video quality as the input MOV.

this is what i came up using your code above:

ffmpeg -i raw\P3280031.MOV -sameq -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -acodec pcm_u8 output.avi

the file size is reduced to a reasonable output (maybe like 30%-40% of the input file size)

i hope this will help

not much change