arista-transcoder

Concatenating ogg video files from the command line

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Okay. I’ve got a few ogg files I’ve created using a desktop recording tool. I’ve transcoded them using ffmpeg once (mainly to clip out the beginnings and the ends). Now, I have 3 such files which I want to concatenate into a single .ogv file. I tried using oggCat, it crashed with some kind of … Read more

What is the quickest, easiest way to compress an MP3 file?

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I would like to compress an MP3 file, and I see a lot of references when searching Google, but it seems like by now someone must have found something easy and that is guaranteed to work. Compressing an MP3 file into a ZIP archive doesn’t compress the file enough, but I am also concerned about … Read more