[nylug-talk] Audio & Video of last night's Python Workshop and the General Meeting about Linux Audio with Sunny Dubey

[Ron Guerin]

Allen Chan wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007, Ron Guerin wrote:
>> Next thing however, is to try processing that video down into a
>> more compressed full-sized version, and a smaller image
>> podcast-appropriate version.  Perhaps someone will volunteer the
>> necessary information.
> 
> ffmpeg -i NYLUG-2007-10-10-RAW-DIGICAM.MPG -vcodec mpeg4 nylug20071010.avi
> 
> I used the above command to convert the video from its original
> 2,110,503,721 bytes to 199,235,536, a little less than 10% of the
> original size, while retaining the 640x480 video size with only a
> slight degradation in visual quality.  This can probably be refined
> further using more advanced ffmpeg options.

Wow! That's a big difference.  What I know about this stuff fits in a
thimble, but I wasn't expecting such a dramatic difference.

- Ron