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dragos240
May 3rd, 2009, 10:50 PM
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
May 3rd, 2009, 10:52 PM
Arista or Transmaggedon maybe?
dragos240
May 3rd, 2009, 10:54 PM
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
May 3rd, 2009, 11:02 PM
Nope sorry, arista is very limited, and I couldn't find anything on google about the second one. Misspelling?
CraigPaleo
May 3rd, 2009, 11:28 PM
How about Winff?
kevin11951
May 3rd, 2009, 11:32 PM
How about Winff?
+100 for winff!
dragos240
May 3rd, 2009, 11:36 PM
I'll try it.
gnomeuser
May 3rd, 2009, 11:39 PM
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
May 3rd, 2009, 11:44 PM
Handbrake is really good.
Paqman
May 3rd, 2009, 11:50 PM
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.
May 3rd, 2009, 11:50 PM
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
May 3rd, 2009, 11:58 PM
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
May 3rd, 2009, 11:59 PM
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
May 4th, 2009, 12:22 AM
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
May 4th, 2009, 12:23 AM
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
May 4th, 2009, 12:38 AM
I think Medibuntu might help.
http://www.medibuntu.org/
That fixed it ^_^
reprobus
May 4th, 2009, 12:50 AM
I use handbrake, it is definitely the best.
http://handbrake.fr/
dragos240
May 4th, 2009, 12:51 AM
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
May 4th, 2009, 12:58 AM
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
May 4th, 2009, 12:59 AM
There is also avidemux that you might want to try.
dragos240
May 4th, 2009, 01:00 AM
I need to now change the codec from XVID mpeg4 to divx mpeg4 version 5. How can I do this?
dragos240
May 4th, 2009, 01:35 AM
Bump.
CraigPaleo
May 4th, 2009, 01:38 AM
Oops
dragos240
May 4th, 2009, 01:53 AM
Huh?
CraigPaleo
May 4th, 2009, 02:05 AM
Huh?
I made a mistake and couldn't delete it.
dragos240
May 4th, 2009, 02:08 AM
Then why post again?
forrestcupp
May 4th, 2009, 02:22 AM
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
May 4th, 2009, 02:23 AM
Then why post again?
Because you said, "huh?"
forrestcupp
May 4th, 2009, 02:43 AM
Because you said, "huh?"
That was just a clever way of bumping without appearing to be bumping. :)
fdrake
May 4th, 2009, 02:49 AM
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
May 4th, 2009, 11:57 AM
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
May 4th, 2009, 01:06 PM
ZevenOS (based on Ubuntu) has a very nice looking media converter application.
http://www.zevenos.com/about/encode
Wow. That looks pretty awesome.
mips
May 4th, 2009, 01:14 PM
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
May 4th, 2009, 06:25 PM
wow. That looks pretty awesome.
+1
Polygon
May 5th, 2009, 01:51 PM
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
May 7th, 2009, 02:32 PM
The Encode app aswell as the ZevenOS repo should work with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).
Ubuntu 9.04 might not work fully.
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