[Ilugc] Foss.in 2006 concluded today...

[Girish Venkatachalam]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:46:54PM +0530, Prashanth Mohan wrote:
> Vamsee Kanakala wrote:
> > YouTube expects - well over 100MB. I wanna reduce the resolution of the
> > .avi files and make them much smaller. Any tools you guys would recommend?
> 
> I _think_ Google Video supports arbitrary sized files.
> You can use ffmpeg to reduce the resolution of your video. Something like:
> ./ffmpeg -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1000 -r 10 -g 300 -i ~/test.avi -s 800?600
> ~/test-800-600.avi

Good idea but I would just do this to reduce file size. Brightness I don't know. I think it should be straight forward.

ffmpeg -i video.avi video.flv 

:)

Perhaps you can try both approaches and figure out what works best. 

Best,
Girish