[nmglug] convert mp4 to ogv

[Sam Noble]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 01:25:56PM -0700, Jason Schaefer wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm trying to convert this mp4 video to a ogg theora video. I run
> ffmpeg2theora and its taking forever, it converted a quarter of the
> file out over a 4 hour period and seems to be stalling and or not
> working. The same goes for using ffmpeg directly. Anyone know how I
> can speed it up?

>     Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline), yuv420p,
>     Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, mono, s16, 96 kb/s

With two heavily patent encumbered codecs in there it's going to
important to know which avutils etc. your ffmpeg is built. Especially
since there are a plethora of versions available for debian between the
various releases at debian and  Christian Marillat's deb-multimedia
repos.

-- 
sam