From d4059173fd13d7bdd907c747742054ffeb358aee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: iovar Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:38:32 +0000 Subject: recordmydesktop.1: Updated manpage with examples of resizing and changing the video quality with vlc. git-svn-id: https://recordmydesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/recordmydesktop/trunk@350 f606c939-3180-4ac9-a4b8-4b8779d57d0a --- recordmydesktop/doc/recordmydesktop.1 | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/recordmydesktop/doc/recordmydesktop.1 b/recordmydesktop/doc/recordmydesktop.1 index e90d73b..5ea7edd 100644 --- a/recordmydesktop/doc/recordmydesktop.1 +++ b/recordmydesktop/doc/recordmydesktop.1 @@ -413,12 +413,48 @@ if you are doing the encoding on the fly ,it's better to start with default values and manipulate the end\-result with another program. .br -An excellent converter is +.br +An excellent converter is the +.B +vlc +media player, which can perform a variety of transcoding +.br +operations, either using the graphical interface, or the commandline for more flexibility. +.br +vlc is a complex piece of software, so you should consult it's documentation, before +.br +using it. +.br +.br +An example follows, which will resize a recording named out.ogg to 512x384: +.br +.B +vlc \-I dummy out.ogg vlc:quit \-\-sout "#transcode{ vcodec = theo, width = 512, height = 384 }:duplicate{ dst = std{ access = file, mux=ogg, dst = \\"out_512x384.ogg\\" }}" +.br +.br +If you wish to change the video quality you can append the +.B +\-\-sout\-theora\-quality=n, +with +.B +n +in the range +.B +[1,10] +e.g: +.br +.B +vlc \-I dummy out.ogg vlc:quit \-\-sout "#transcode{ vcodec = theo, width = 512, height = 384 }:duplicate{ dst = std{ access = file, mux=ogg, dst = \\"out_512x384.ogg\\" }}" \-\-sout\-theora\-quality=3 +.br +which will give a file of a video quality 18 (in a range of 0-63), thus appropriate for web-publishing. +.br +.br +Another option is .B ffmpeg2theora , which despite its name is also a theora to theora converter. .br -Changing the quality of a recordng with it,can be as simple as : +Changing the quality of a recordng with it, can be as simple as : .br .B ffmpeg2theora infile.ogg \-v 3 \-a 4 \-o outfile.ogg @@ -439,7 +475,10 @@ John Varouhakis(johnvarouhakis@gmail.com) .SH SEE ALSO .BR xwininfo(1) .br +.BR vlc(1) +.br .BR ffmpeg2theora(1) .br .BR jack_lsp(1) .br + -- cgit v1.2.3