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FYI - I just tried vlc-git-powerpc-20080502-0306.zip on Mac OS X 10.4.10. VLC automatically opens a video window and begins playing the mp3 but crashes before any lyrics can be displayed.

VirtualDub ?

Windows only...yuk. Any other suggestions that will run on *nix? I tried ffmpegX but it takes a long time also.

Thanks

What is the right tool?

I want to convert avi movies to mp4. I'm not that fussy about quality, but I'd like it to be fast. Is VCL the right tool? It seems to take a long time, although I admit I don't know what to expect. Seems to take as long or longer than it takes to play the movie.

I want to do the transcode avi to mp4 thing and reduce it's resolution as in this article on the wiki: <http://wiki.videolan.org/IPod>. I use 'Open File -> Streaming/Saving -> Settings', however after selecting the appropriate options the MRL does not contain any of the '#transcode{ }' options as th...