{"id":1146,"date":"2013-12-31T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2013-12-31T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:55:13","slug":"quick-mpg4-to-avi-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/quick-mpg4-to-avi-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick MPG4 to AVI conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The problem – my wife had an mpg4 but it wouldn’t play on the machine upstair. Needed an AVI instead. I couldn’t be bothered learning all the various settings of ffmpeg (libav is a fork) but found an acceptable (albeit inefficient) way of getting the same quality in the AVI as in the MPG4. OK, the file size was 3-4x larger, so I would recommend optimising things if doing multiple conversions, but this is a good and simple answer for the occasional one-off.<\/p>\n

ffmpeg -i original.mp4 -sameq converted_version.avi<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The problem – my wife had an mpg4 but it wouldn’t play on the machine upstair. Needed an AVI instead. I couldn’t be bothered learning all the various settings of ffmpeg (libav is a fork) but found an acceptable (albeit … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiovisual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}