Converting AVI’s to SVI’s for the Samsung YP-P2
* If you are using Ubuntu Jaunty please read all the way through the article as there are updates at the bottom.
* For Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty), please read/use my latest updates to the YP-P2 action.
I watch quite a few movies on my Samsung YP-P2, so am always having to covert the AVI’s I currently have to SVI’s. An SVI is still an AVI, just a different extension name and a few key points, which include not having any b-frames, the video being 480×272 in resolution, and a few other things.
Anyway…I’m an Ubuntu (not Windows!) user so I firstly started encoding my videos using Avidemux. Which is an excellent an easy to use GUI for converting videos into whatever format/specifics you need. However, it’s still a pain to have to open it up, load a video, check all the settings etc…