Converting video in linux using ffmpeg and mencoder


I’ve always looked for a good tutorial on how to convert video from anything to VCD or DVD in an easy way and from CLI and that’s also easy to understand what’s going on. For that matter some time ago I’ve found this article and now I want to share it with you.

Converting video in linux using ffmpeg and mencoder

I also want to add another step that I’ve haven’t found in that article but found to be useful, how to join two AVI together. It is a simple command if you have transcode installed (If not you can install it in a Debian based distro with sudo apt-get install transcode).

avimerge -o outputFile.avi -i inputFile1.avi inputFile2.avi .. inputFileN.avi

That’s it! Have Fun!

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