[Techtalk] Compressing ogg file

[Andrea Landaker]

> I successfully recorded my talk at SVLUG about the recent FLOSSPOLS
> gender study, but now I'm stuck with a 46MB ogg file (it's an hour
> long).  This is way too huge to ship around the net.  What are my
> options for compressing this file?

Well, for the smallest possible audio that still sounds good, speex 
(www.speex.org) is a great format for human speech.  

> I also would like to edit the recording and my slides together into a
> movie, so that the relevant slide is automatically showing.  Any
> suggestions for how to do that?

If you export your slides as pngs or jpegs, you can use transcode or mencode 
(both command line utilities).  You might be able to do this with GUI tools, 
too -- you could try avidemux.

-- 
Andrea Landaker
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/