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Ramon Tayag
Asked: 2010-12-15 01:35:27 +0800 CST

Video converter: ogv to avi (or another more common format)

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I've been using recordMyDesktop to record stuff. A little slow to compile but it records fine. However, when I try to convert from ogv to avi (I've used Devede and an mencoder script) the audio and video go out of sync.

Here's the script for reference:

#!/bin/bash
# ogv to avi
# Call this with multiple arguments
# for example : ls *.{ogv,OGV} | xargs ogv2avi
N=$#;
echo "Converting $N files !"
for ((i=0; i<=(N-1); i++))
do
echo "converting" $1
filename=${1%.*}
#mencoder "$1" -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts pass=1 -o $filename.avi
mencoder "$1" -o $filename.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts fast:preset=standard -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=4000
shift 1
done

Are there good reliable video converters out there? :)

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9 Answers

  1. You can use avconv to convert and optionally resize (it is included with ffmpeg):

    avconv -i "input.ogv" -vcodec mjpeg -acodec mp2 -s 640x480 -vb 3000k -ab 160k "output.avi"

    This converts your video to a .avi file with mjpeg and mp2 codecs for good compatibility.

    avconv -i "input.ogv" -vcodec mjpeg -acodec mp2 -s 640x480 -qscale 5 "output.avi"

    This converts your video using quality scale.

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  2. Best Answer

    winff Install winff

    Is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg's, flv's, and mov's, all into avi's all at once.

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  3. You can try with ffmpeg:

    ffmpeg -i input.ogv output.avi
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  4. In terminal type the following,

    mencoder input.ogv -o output.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts fast:preset=standard -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=4000

    • Change the input.ogv to the name of you of your ogv file.

    • You can also give the name for the output file by altering output.avi in the above command.

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  5. using the -idx switch fixed this for me...discussion here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=665836

    mencoder -idx input.ogv -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o output.avi

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  6. mencoder is very good at these sort of things. Earlier today I wrote about making screencasts in Ubuntu using recordmydesktop and then converting the ogv files into avi with xvid video and mp3 audio. You can find it at http://binwaheed.blogspot.com/2010/12/creating-screencast-in-ubuntu-linux.html

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  7. for me the next combination works 

    sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
ffmpeg -sameq -i /home/xxxx/x.ogv /home/xxx/x.avi

    more detail here http://linux.bzic.org/cum-fac-screencast-captura-de-pe-monitor-in-ubuntu-gnulinux/

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  8. Try avidemux Install avidemux , it's available in the repositories and has a intuitive GUI.

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  9. Try Mobile Media Converter. It has a really simple GUI but it can do what you are trying to do.

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