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:
File:VideoContest OggHowto step1.png
Step 2
Download ffmpeg2theora binary for Linux and decompress the file and make it executable:
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
File:VideoContest OggHowto totem.png
[tchung@localhost mars] $ hxplay odyssey-20060313-320.ogg
