Recommend me a good video format to encode my video [closed]

Recommend me a good video format to encode my video [closed] I recently got a helmet camera for my motorbike and was able to make videos, however it stores it in Motion JPEG, which is very space inefficent. 30 minutes of 640x480 takes up 2GB. I can convert that to mpg, with this command:
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"How about Matroska and H264?

There are some potential problems with Apple and h264, but for now it seems to be ok.

As frontend when I rip and encode DVD:s I use Handbreak, however I don't know if you can use Handbreak for your need.

Update:
And to play those mkv/h264 in Ubuntu I use the vlc player.

Update:
You can use Handbreak to convert your video with something like this:

HandBrakeCLI -i my_vid.avi -E faac -B 128 -f mp4 -e x264 -o my_new_video.mp4"