Transcoding Files with MediaCoder

From MITVWiki

If you are dealing with video formats that you aren't able to edit, or you want to export your Movie Maker videos into something other than [wmv] then you will need to learn a little bit about transcoding.

Transcoding is the conversion of video from one codec to another, this is similar to translating a language but actually more like changing the compression format.

MediaCoder is a relatively easy to use GUI video compression tool available for people using the Windows operating system. It can also be ran under Wine in the Linux environment.

The interface is a little complex for beginners and there is currently no documentation. Eventually this entry will seek to change that by at least providing a simple tutorial for how to convert DV edited files to hi-quality hi-compression H.264 for people without expensive rendering built into their editors.

At this point though I'm running under Ubuntu and I don't have MediaCoder installed to even begin writing the tutorial.