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On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 05:46:11PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote:
> 
> The problem is, the 22MB/20second file turned into 16 and 17MB
> respectivly. Not much compression improvement.
> 
> Can anyone reccomend a format combo that will achive a better
> quality:size ratio than mpeg2video/mp2/mpeg? If ffmpeg doesn't work
> well, could I get suggestions for a program (and the port that
> provides the program)?

MPEG4 with a lot of options specified.  The problem is the CPU overhead >>
real time.

-- Rick C. Petty