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Tame your video files

Posted on 2012-01-22 by apeekaboo

An advanced tool and able to handle most file formats, is ffmpeg. Install it with:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Convert all files in current directory to SVCD (PAL):

for file in *; do ffmpeg -i $file -target pal-svcd ${file}_final.mpg ; done

Convert all files in current directory to SVCD (NTSC):

for file in *; do ffmpeg -i $file -target ntsc-svcd ${file}_final.mpg ; done

Convert all files in current directory to VCD (PAL):

for file in *; do ffmpeg -i $file -target pal-vcd ${file}_final.mpg ; done

Convert all files in current directory to VCD (NTSC):

for file in *; do ffmpeg -i $file -target ntsc-vcd ${file}_final.mpg ; done

Combine two mpg-files to one, as mpeg:

cat file1.mpg file2.mpg |ffmpeg -i - -f mpeg -vcodec copy -acodec copy merged.mpg

Combine two mpg-files to one, converting to SVCD while keeping the audio in sync:

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