What to do with Camcorder DV Video?
Other Approaches
There are of course other ways to skin this bulk compression of avi’s cat, I just haven’t pursued them, usually because information (as often seems to be the case with video work on the internet) isn’t always easy to find out.
I looked briefly at “ffmpeg” as a batch processor but was unable to get it to work probably due more to my own incompetence than any shortcomings in the tool. I would have had to spend rather more time and I’m afraid rather lost interest.
Ditto “menconder”.
Both of these tools are command line based so require some scripting to get them to batch encode files.
Further Information (and the sources for much of this information) can be found by following the URLs scattered throughout this document.
Oodles of information can also be found on the forum http://www.doom9.org/