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Re: news from the Seoul BOF

2004-03-04 13:03:06
Welp, I have downloaded the mpeg and I am currently in the process of
re-encoding it.  It looks like I will be able to make the video about
a factor of 10 smaller (150MB vs 1.2GB), with very little reduction in
quality.  The re-encoding command that I'm using is:

mencoder -o ietf_marid.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc \
   -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=100 -lameopts preset=voice \
   ietf59-ch1-thur-am_040304_0845_5.mpg


Last year, when I used the same command for the FTC spam conference
videos, I received some reports that MS-Windows users could not view
the resulting file, but that other Linux users could use mplayer/xine
just fine.


Is there anyone interested in beta testing the start of this video?
Is there anyone who can suggest a better way of re-encoding the video?

I have placed the first 1MB of the re-encoded video on my website at:
http://www.midwestcs.com/spf/ietf_marid_start.avi

Plays 47 seconds of audio and video just fine with mplayer 0.92-3.3.3
under FreeBSD 5.2.                                        -- George