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How to convert QuickTime movie to Ogg Theora

This wiki page describes how you can convert a QuickTime movie to Ogg Theora using ffmpeg2theora which is a GPL software.

At the end, you should be able to watch Ogg Theora video using Totem Movie Player or Helix Player without any proprietary codecs.

• http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/
• http://www.theora.org/theorafaq.html
• http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/
• http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

In this following example, we'll convert a recent Mars QuickTime movie titled Flight Into Mariner Valley posted at JPL's multimedia library into Ogg Theora.

Step 1

Download Quicktime (Download without caption: small size 15Mb) movie from JPL's multimedia library:

• http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/mars/vallesmarineris-20060313/

File:VideoContest OggHowto step1.png

Step 2

Download ffmpeg2theora binary for Linux and decompress the file and make it executable:

• http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/download.html

File:VideoContest OggHowto step2.png

[tchung@localhost download] $ ls
ffmpeg2theora-0.16.linux.bin.bz2
[tchung@localhost download] $ bunzip2 ffmpeg2theora-0.16.linux.bin.bz2
[tchung@localhost download] $ ls
ffmpeg2theora-0.16.linux.bin
[tchung@localhost download] $ mv ffmpeg2theora-0.16.linux.bin ffmpeg2theora
[tchung@localhost download] $ ls
ffmpeg2theora
[tchung@localhost download] $ chmod 755 ffmpeg2theora
[tchung@localhost download] $ ls -l ffmpeg2theora
-rwxr-xr-x  1 tchung tchung 5984204 Mar 19 00:26 ffmpeg2theora
[tchung@localhost download] $ cp ffmpeg2theora ~/bin

Step 3

Convert the QuickTime movie to Ogg Theora using ffmpeg2theora:

[tchung@localhost mars] $ ls
odyssey-20060313-320.mov
[tchung@localhost mars] $ ffmpeg2theora odyssey-20060313-320.mov -o odyssey-20060313-320.ogg
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2, from 'odyssey-20060313-320.mov':
Duration: 00:03:44.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 540 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: qdm2, 22050 Hz, mono
Stream #0.1(eng), 29.97 fps(r): Video: svq3, yuv420p, 320x180
Resize: 320x180
0:03:44.72 audio: 32kbps video: 277kbps
[tchung@localhost mars] $ ls
odyssey-20060313-320.mov  odyssey-20060313-320.ogg

Step 4

Now, you can watch the File:VideoContest OggHowto odyssey-20060313-320.ogg Ogg Theora video] with Totem Movie Player or Helix Player without any proprietary codecs:

[tchung@localhost mars] $ totem odyssey-20060313-320.ogg

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[tchung@localhost mars] $ hxplay odyssey-20060313-320.ogg

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