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Tip: Encode a video into XVid format

Posted By: apeiro

Cameras and other digital devices can often capture video, but they don't use a space-friendly format. This script uses open source tools to encode an AVI into XVid and MP3.

All you need is a few open source tools:

transcode
mjpegtools
lame

Here's a Bash script that does the trick. Tested on Linux.

#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
    echo "usage: encvid <file.avi>"
    exit
fi

vidfn=$1

lav2wav -I $vidfn >tmp.$vidfn.wav || exit 1
transcode -i $vidfn -w 512 -y xvid4,null -o tmp.$vidfn.avi || exit 1
lame tmp.$vidfn.wav tmp.$vidfn.mp3 || exit 1
avimerge -i tmp.$vidfn.avi -p tmp.$vidfn.mp3 -o $vidfn.avi || exit 1

rm -f tmp.$vidfn.wav tmp.$vidfn.mp3 tmp.$vidfn.avi
echo "Done."