Advanced media converter w/ gui?

[dragos240]

Hello,

I need to convert a file with some specific requirments such as, bitrate, framerate, size, audio codec, video codec, number of channels and sample rate. Is there a nice program for linux that would be good for this, and perhaps a gui forend for it?

[gnomeuser]

Arista or Transmaggedon maybe?

[dragos240]

Arista or Transmaggedon maybe?

Thank you on your quick responce, I did not find either in the main ubuntu repositories, so I found a PPA for arista. Thank you!

[dragos240]

Nope sorry, arista is very limited, and I couldn't find anything on google about the second one. Misspelling?

[CraigPaleo]

How about Winff?

[kevin11951]

How about Winff?

+100 for winff!

[dragos240]

I'll try it.

[gnomeuser]

Thank you on your quick responce, I did not find either in the main ubuntu repositories, so I found a PPA for arista. Thank you!

http://www.linuxrising.org/transmageddon/

But I think it might to "basic" for your needs as well.

[unoodles]

Handbrake is really good.

[Paqman]

Handbrake is really good.

+1

It's multithreaded, and they have .debs for 64-bit so it's seriously fast. Re-encoding video and the like is where 64-bit multi-core machines really shine.

[.Maleficus.]

MEncoder maybe? There are a bunch of GUIs for it, but having never used it I'm not sure of its capabilities or features.

[dmn_clown]

Hello,

I need to convert a file with some specific requirments such as, bitrate, framerate, size, audio codec, video codec, number of channels and sample rate. Is there a nice program for linux that would be good for this, and perhaps a gui forend for it?

ffmpeg can do this, but is CLI only. Blender's sequencer can act as a semi-nice front end to ffmpeg so it should cover your requirements, its documentation starts here: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Sequencer

[dragos240]

Okay, I've installed WinFF, although, there are issues. It's missing libxvid and msmpeg4. They seem to be libraries to encode videos. Alas, I do not know where to find them.

[init1]

Okay, I've installed WinFF, although, there are issues. It's missing libxvid and msmpeg4. They seem to be libraries to encode videos. Alas, I do not know where to find them.
I think Medibuntu might help.
http://www.medibuntu.org/

[CraigPaleo]

Okay, I've installed WinFF, although, there are issues. It's missing libxvid and msmpeg4. They seem to be libraries to encode videos. Alas, I do not know where to find them.
Do you have w32codecs and ubuntu-restricted-extras installed? If not, what Init1 posted should help.

[dragos240]

I think Medibuntu might help.
http://www.medibuntu.org/

That fixed it ^_^

[reprobus]

I use handbrake, it is definitely the best.

http://handbrake.fr/

[dragos240]

I'm back with the results, they look VERY good, except the codec differentiation. How can I change the codec? I have posted an image of the comparison between a sansa fuze compatible video file, and the one I want on there:

[fdrake]

i don't know of a gui-application that does that. but ffmpeg is great as a terminal application . u practically have full control over the conversion.

can you be a little more spec of what kind of file are u trying to convert? and into what format( fram/sec, bitr, ect..) ? In this way someone can give u the right terminal options to attach to the ffmpeg .

[Yannick Le Saint kyncani]

There is also avidemux that you might want to try.

[dragos240]

I need to now change the codec from XVID mpeg4 to divx mpeg4 version 5. How can I do this?

[dragos240]

Bump.

[CraigPaleo]

Oops

[dragos240]

Huh?

[CraigPaleo]

Huh?

I made a mistake and couldn't delete it.

[dragos240]

Then why post again?

[forrestcupp]

Bump.

You can't bump after only 17 minutes.

Have you ever checked out t@b Media Converter (http://www.thugsatbay.com/tab/?q=tab-video-converter-encoder)? It's a graphical front end for mencoder and sox.

It's probably not what you're looking for, though.

[CraigPaleo]

Then why post again?
Because you said, "huh?"

[forrestcupp]

Because you said, "huh?"

That was just a clever way of bumping without appearing to be bumping. :)

[fdrake]

u might try this and let as know.


ffmpeg -i input_file -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -b 800 -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128 -vtag divx output_file


it depends also from the qaulity of your source file . if you have an higher resolution or bitrade u might want to change this values too.

[mips]

ZevenOS (based on Ubuntu) has a very nice looking media converter application.

http://www.zevenos.com/about/encode

http://www.zevenos.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/super-encode.png

[forrestcupp]

ZevenOS (based on Ubuntu) has a very nice looking media converter application.

http://www.zevenos.com/about/encode


Wow. That looks pretty awesome.

[mips]

Wow. That looks pretty awesome.

That's what I though the first time I saw it. It looks so easy to use without being featureless.

Hence it stuck in my mind.

It should be able to run in Ubuntu I recon for all the Ubuntu users out there, just need to find the package.

Edit:
People might want to browse the repos for this,

deb http://www.zevenos.com/packages/ ./
deb-src http://www.zevenos.com/packages/ ./

I got the above from the ZevenOS forum which I have not verified.

[CraigPaleo]

wow. That looks pretty awesome.

+1

[Polygon]

that looks nice! avidemux has some weird stuttering problem with any videos that i encode from my digital camera....so i'm looking for alternatives.

[llelectronics]

The Encode app aswell as the ZevenOS repo should work with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).
Ubuntu 9.04 might not work fully.