Video translation magic

[mailinglist at endosquid.com (Brendan)]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:29, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Download mplayer and use mencoder to translate it.  The mencoder man
> page has some examples at the bottom of the page.
>
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu
>
> Haven't tried this but this should convert an AVI (file.avi) to mpeg2
> (file.mpeg).
>
> mencoder file.avi -o file.mpeg  -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg2video

Futzing with mencoder has been the downfall of many marriages. 
Take a shortcut:
http://tovid.berlios.de/en/index.html