Another reason why I love Linux. Having created a screen capture in the OGG file format, I needed to give it to a friend who prefers to work with AVI formats. After a few minutes of searching, voila… a simple and elegant answer was found thanks to liquidat.

The short sweet answer:

Make sure you have the MPlayer’s Movie Encoder installed (sudo apt-get mencoder). It is available from the Medibuntu repository.

Then go to the command line and enter:

mencoder video.ogg -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o video.avi

where video.ogg is the original OGG file and video.avi is your desired ouput file

That should be it. Let me know if you have an questions.

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