On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 16:52, James Gray wrote:
> Right now, I need a software MPEG1/2 encoder. I have a bunch on AVI files
> that need compressing to MPEG2 then they'll get burned onto (S)VCD for
> archiving. Yes I know MPEG1/2/4 is a lossy format - that's OK as long as
> the encoding is clean. Anyone know of a Linux equivalent to "tmpeg" etc??
There are tools for this - mjpegtools, gstreamer, kino & mplayer are
good tools to look at.
> I'm not too concerned about capture at the moment - I have a digital video
> camera and supported IEEE1394 card, so that should cover it (never tried it
> though). Once I get the raw video on my system though, I'd like to do some
> basic editing; transitions (fade to/from black at least!), sub-titles,
> inserting backing music etc. Then I want encode the whole shebang into
> MPEG2 ready to burn onto a (S)VCD.
kino is the best thing for this at the moment, although none of the
tools are as slick or well polished as the commercial Windows offerings.
I have a plan to make a GStreamer based tool, but ask me again later :)
J.
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