Video Convertor Nautilus Script

[crmanski]

This is a Nautilus Script that I have been working on since Hoary and I thought that I would post something in the current release How-To forum.
(The current OS(Gutsy) thread is here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=62625)

This script will take multiple video files of the same type (right now: MPG, AVI, MOV, ASF, VOB, WMV), ask you a few questions and covert them into either NTSC/PAL - dvd, svcd or vcd compliant MPEG files by using ffmpeg and mencoder. They can then be used with DVD styler, varsha, etc. to create a dvd video disk.

Installation:
-Requirements: zenity (Comes with gnome), ffmpeg (apt-get ffmpeg), mencoder mplayer, transcode, mkvtoolnix

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg mencoder mplayer transcode mkvtoolnix

-Download the script and place it in the Nautilus scripts folder (/home/YourUserName/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts)
-Make sure the file is executable

chmod 740 ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/video-convert

-Select some video files. (This works well on the video files my digital camera makes)
-Right-Click -> Choose Scripts -> video-convert

An enhanced ffmpeg with xvid and aac support can be downloaded here...
http://skulboxx.com/Ubuntu/sbx/

[chanders]

Absolutely wonderful! Have been looking for something like this for a very long time...

Suggestion: Allow users to create and save custom settings...

Again great work!

[crmanski]

That is an interesting suggestion. What types of settings would you want to create/save? I usually just edit the script and add the settings that I need, especially for the DVD encoding settings and recently as I was learning a bit about mencoder.

[homersbrain]

This is superb - worked first time! Could a progress bar possibly be implemented too? Great work!

[crmanski]

This is superb - worked first time! Could a progress bar possibly be implemented too? Great work!

This is still something that isn't working correctly. In the old thread someone had a bit of perl that worked for the first video but not the rest. I just don't have the brains to figure it out
If someone else more skilled were to figure it out that would be great.

[Kung Fu Hamster]

What about adding support to convert .WMV files as well?

[Svendus]

What about adding support to convert .WMV files as well?

Is it possible to convert .ogg files captured with gtk-recordMyDesktop to AVI with this Script ?
We are using

#!/bin/bash
#

mencoder -idx /home/USERNAME/out.ogg -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o /home/USERNAME/out.avi

It makes low quality AVI but we want high quality AVI
Regards Svendus

[Devil_Gilgamesh]

Excellent.

If it had a cancel button it would be even better, and a progress bar...

Just a suggestion.

Thanks for the script.

[art2003]

This is the script I use to convert (from terminal) all *.mpg files to .avi (xvid)

#!/bin/bash

for f in $(ls ./ |grep  .mpg |grep -v .avi ) ; do
xv=`echo "$f" | sed 's/\.\w*$/.avi/'` ;
ffmpeg -i $f -f avi -vcodec xvid -b 800 -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec mp2 -ab 128 $xv ;
echo $f converted to $xv ;
rm $f ;
done

This works for me where the script on this thread doesn't. (after selecting convert to xvid it opens the progress bar for a fraction of a second and exits)

[crmanski]

This is the script I use to convert (from terminal) all *.mpg files to .avi (xvid)

ffmpeg -i $f -f avi -vcodec xvid -b 800 -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec mp2 -ab 128 $xv ;

This works for me where the script on this thread doesn't. (after selecting convert to xvid it opens the progress bar for a fraction of a second and exits)

That ffmpeg line will not work with the standard ffmpeg from the ubuntu repositories. ffmpeg was only compiled with these options on my dapper install...

--extra-cflags=-fomit-frame-pointer -DRUNTIME_CPUDETECT --build i486-linux-gnu --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-zlib --enable-vorbis --enable -libogg --enable-theora --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-dc1394 --enable-libgs m --disable-debug --prefix=/usr

Did you possibly recompile it as describe in the iPod Video convertor How-To?
This Script has 4 options: DVD, MPEG4, SVCD and VCD. If you choose MPEG4 and you do not have mencoder installed it will fail.

If that is not the case then please try from a terminal...

~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/video-convert /path/to/one/of/your/movies.mpg

...and post the errors.