[H-GEN] command to convert a video file to mp4 format

[Russell Stuart]

On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 10:23 +1000, Nick Lawrence wrote:
> A friend once gave me a command to run in a bash script that converted
> a video file to mp4 format.
> 
> ffmpeg -i "${TARGET}" -r 25 -vcodec libx264 -acodec libfaac -threads 0
> -ar 48000 -ab 128k -ac 2 -y -crf 18 "${TARGET%.*}.iPad.mp4"

ffmpeg has been forked by it's debian maintainer to a new package called
avconv.  Avconv hasn't diverged too much from ffmpeg yet, so the command
line parameters are almost identical.  Ie, just replace "ffmpeg" with
"avconv".