[ Thanks to Federico
Pistono for this link. ]
“Now that we have a general overview of what is the difference
between a video codec and a container, we are acknowledged about
the codecs that we are going to use and the reason of this choice,
we can start with the very essence of this tutorial, the
encoding.“My decision to use the omnipotent Mplayer and Mencoder was very
easy. At first, it is an open standard. Secondly, it works really
fast, it has an enormous number of parameters for the
playing/encoding of almost any media that exists; and thirdly it
has a very big and open community willing to help those who are in
need, plus the documentation is exahustive and clear…”