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Encoding Uncompressed video

I'd like to encode uncompressed video into compressed avi or mpeg4. Was wondering what program I should look at getting to do such a task. Videos are between 3 and 20 minutes long, and range anywhere from 1.3 to 10 GBs in uncompressed .avi form (fraps).

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Guest [Entry]

MEncoder is a very nice command line tool for that.
Guest [Entry]

"FFMPEG is yet another free tool to do this. It might be easier to answer these questions if you asked more specifically. Do you want a graphical tool? Command line? Batch operation? Windows? Linux? Mac?

FFMPEG is all of those except graphical, given simple scripting for batch operation."
Guest [Entry]

"I use FFmpeg on Ubuntu Linux to convert AVIs to MP4s. It reduces the file size by about 90% and the quality is OK. I use it for all my Youtube uploads.

Here's the command I use. Replace MVI_0963 (referenced twice) with the name of your video file.

ffmpeg -i MVI_0963.AVI -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libfaac -ab 128kb -s 640x480 -b 1200kb -mbd rd -flags +4mv+aic -trellis 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -g 300 -pass 1/2 -r 25 mvi_0963.mp4"
Guest [Entry]

If you are not intimidated by a complicated interface and fine-grained control, MediaCoder is the way to go.