[H-GEN] Transcoding video from crappy point-and-shoot cameras

[Peter Robinson]

I have been doing some transcoding so I can watch shows recorded on 
mythtv through my sons xbox360.
One of our sytems guys put me on to handbrake - it seems pretty good - 
i.e. it gives reasonable control.

Peter

Benjamin Fowler wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> I have an el-cheapo Canon A720, which I've been using to take lots of 
> pictures and shoot a bit of poor-quality video on my holidays.
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> Now I've determined that the camera is writing the videos in AVI 
> format, with the video stream encoded in Motion JPEG format.  So the 
> videos, AFAICT, are getting written out in a lossy format, and worse, 
> aren't even being compressed very well.
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> I'd like to save some space, so I'd like to transcode the video into 
> something that'll take up less space, but maintain as much quality as 
> possible.  Does anybody have any practical experience and advice for 
> transcoding videos from one lossy format to another to save space?
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> Furthermore, does anybody know of a way to 'rotate' videos 90 
> degrees?  Ideally, without having to re-encode the video, or fiddle 
> around with video editing tools if at all possible.
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> I'm on a Mac, and use Open Source tools.
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> Cheers, Ben.
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