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

[Peter Robinson]

On 11/07/13 10:46, Russell Stuart wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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".
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I have used handbrake in the past to do similar things - it has a GUI 
and CLI