[thelist] Video compression help?

David Dorward evolt at david.us-lot.org
Fri Oct 3 16:11:42 CDT 2003


On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:06:21 -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> I know absolutely nothing about video compression. All I know is that I have a
> setup here that grabs a series of frames from a black & white lab camera and
> saves them to an uncompressed .avi file. I understand that video codecs exist
> for the express purpose of making these uncompressed AVIs smaller. I've been
> looking around some, but I still have no idea how I go about using these things
> to compress my video. Does anyone have any advice for me? Preferably an open
> source codec and compression tool?

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ is a good place to start. It has a good manual.

-- 
David Dorward                                       http://dorward.me.uk/


More information about the thelist mailing list