Here VLC's command line interface comes to the rescue. If you are encoding a number of files to Theora, clicking through the VLC dialog windows can become tedious and error-prone. As of this writing, changing video resolution fails to work properly for some source material, when using VLC 1.0.1. If your video source material has a very high resolution, try setting Scale to 0.5 to encode at half the original resolution. If your encoding result's video quality was too low, try increasing Bitrate.
The video encoding options you need are under the "Video codec" tab, shown below: Make sure you do not change any parameters under "Encapsulation". This opens up a new dialog, with the 4 tabs, labeled "Encapsulation", "Video codec", "Audio codec" and "Subtitles". In the previous encoding dialog, before hitting Start, press the button with the "tool" icon, just to the left of the profile selection: If you are not satisfied with the encoding result, try adjusting some of the more advance encoding parameters. Once encoding is done, the slider jumps back to the left and the "Streaming" display disappears. The slider will slowly move to the right as encoding progresses. This indicates that it is busy encoding your file. This starts the encoding process and brings you back to VLC's main dialog:Īt the window's bottom, the text "Streaming" is now displayed. Under Settings set the Profile to "Video - Theora + Vorbis (OGG)". Remember that the correct file name extension for a Theora file is. Under Destination click Browse and select the location and name of the Theora file that you want to create. Under File Selection click Add and select the source video file for encoding.Then click on Convert/Save at the bottom. When you start VLC, you are immediately greeted by its main window: Other versions may differ in details, though the overall process will be the same. The following instructions have been written for use with VLC version 1.0.1 running on Ubuntu.
Encoding can either be performed via the graphical user interface (GUI), or from the command line. The VLC media player ( allows easy encoding of video files to Theora.
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