
transcode hasn't even got that much attention. mencoder has been barely updated to ensure it still compiles the last decade. They are wildly outdated and not worth your time. Three other tools do exist: mencoder, ffmpeg2theora and transcode. There is one basic GNU/Linux tool you absolutely must learn and that is: ffmpeg The Basic Tools for ALL Your Video Conversion Needs You will see your shareholder value decrease if you only provide videos in Webm format on your website if it is targeting a broad audience. iToddlers can't play Webm and Apple appears to be hell-bent on keeping it that way.If your audience is primarily Linux-focused then VP9 video with Opus audio in a.If you are distribution your video on the web to a general audience then proprietary H264 (MPEG/AVC) video with AAC is the best choice for maximum playability.You will likely want files to be as small as possible without reducing the video quality. file will save you 1 GB of hard-drive space if you host 10 video-files on a web-server. A video-file reduced by 100 MB will save you 100 GB of bandwidth if 1000 people download it.Size is important, specially when publishing video on the web. This HOWTO will to introduce to you some of the basic commands to use the most common Linux command-line program to convert video files from one format to another. Good reasons to change a video file can be: There are many good reasons to convert video files you made yourself - or video files forwarded to you which you plan to distribute. 3.6.1 Resizing a video to higher resolutions.3.6 Resizing a video to lower resolutions.

