• Converting .mp4 to .ogv format

    by  • December 28, 2008 • Audio and Video • 9 Comments

    Over these past 2 days I recorded some videos on my Symbian cell phone that I wanted to share with my family back home. Problem is that the videos are saved in .mp4 format, which gave me some problems when trying to edit them (video editors I tried to use didn’t support mp4).

    So, as we speak I’m converting these files to .ogv with ffmpeg. Linux command line work is involved but just writing one very simple line:

    • ffmpeg2theora file.mp4

    Simple as that! My movie files are nicely converted. There are a bunch of other cool functions you can do with ffmpeg such as changing bitrate, video size, specific audio or video codec.

    Later I’m ging to try this Mencoder tip to join several video files.

     

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    9 Responses to Converting .mp4 to .ogv format

    1. LohanNo Gravatar
      March 3, 2009 at 8:50 am

      Thanks very much for the tip :-) Stumbled upon your post when searching for a way to convert my mp4s into theora.

    2. jsNo Gravatar
      March 8, 2010 at 9:19 pm

      that doesn’t work

    3. Eric HopperNo Gravatar
      March 19, 2010 at 5:08 pm

      ffmpeg2theora was a package I needed to install on my Fedora system.

      yum install /usr/bin/ffmpeg2theora did the trick.

    4. James HeelNo Gravatar
      December 5, 2010 at 12:06 pm

      Thanks for the tip!

      I will download ffmpeg and give it a try. I will report back with my findings.

      Thanks again,
      James

    5. RudyNo Gravatar
      March 9, 2011 at 1:21 am

      sudo apt-get install ffmpeg2thoera.

      great tip, thanks.

    6. BranNo Gravatar
      April 28, 2011 at 4:26 pm

      Thanks for the tip. It has worked just fine for me.

    7. optimizareNo Gravatar
      April 28, 2011 at 4:40 pm

      This conversion seems to be more easy to perform than now. I believe the problem is just the compression after conversion.

    8. LucaNo Gravatar
      June 14, 2011 at 6:25 pm

      It worked for me (ffmpeg2theora 0.24).

      Thanks!

    9. Lighthouse NguyenNo Gravatar
      December 15, 2011 at 2:54 am

      very good, i have done it, interesting.

      thank you so much for your shares.

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