[SWLUG] Giving up Windows

[Jonathan Wright]

Steve Hill wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Gerald Davies wrote:
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>> I was looking for such stuff on Sunday, but didn't put too much effort
>> in.  I wanted to compress an avi, convert it to mpeg, etc, etc.  I
>> guess dvd-writing is a no-brainer (?), but its making a DVD video that
>> i have no experience of on Linux or *BSD
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> Transcoding is reasonably easy from the commandline if you don't want to 
> do any editing - mencoder, transcode or ffmpeg should do the job (I have 
> had mixed results with ffmpeg - sometimes the sound goes out of sync).

Seconded. I've had alot of good times with transcoder when I used to 
convert downloaded videos onto DVD to let my parents see all the new 
stuff from America (I've got a Kiss DVD player now, so it'll just play 
them natively - thank god! :)

However, the only downside is you've got to know what you're doing, and 
you really do have to RTFM. There is alot of power in transcode, and it 
can be overwhelming in how you try and access it. This is the command 
line I use to convert NTSC downloaded divxs/xvids to PAL DVD format:

# transcode -i inputfile.avi -V -y mpeg2enc,mp2enc -w 9000 -F 8,"-4 1 -2 
1 -f 9 -F 3 -r 24 -a 3" -Z 720x576 -E 48000 -b 224 -o outputfile 
--export_asr 3 --import_asr 3 --print_status 10,1 --export_fps 0,3 -J 
fps -x mplayer,mplayer && mplex -f 7 -o outputfile.mpg outputfile.a2v 
outputfile.mpa

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