Re: quicktime .mov files and youtube

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:18:43PM +1200, Tony Sauri wrote:
> 
> Did you try to play them using  ffmpeg's player ffplay?
> 
 No, I'd forgotten about this tool.  Many thanks, it plays them
nicely and turns out to be a key part of comparing the outputs with
various options to reduce the bitrate.
> If you just want to copy yhe original audio and video stream to an avi 
> container this ffmpeg command should do it:
> 
> ffmpeg -i <inpit .mov file>  -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f  <output ,avi file>
> 
> Tony
> 
>  
 Thanks, I've copied them to .avi for initial review using ffmpeg's
defaults (so, *much* smaller files, which helps enormously in
backing everything up when I'm away from home).

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