On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 16:52, James Gray wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to cut the final thread requiring me to have a Windows partition > - video editing. I know this topic was "done" about a year or so ago but I > was wondering if anyone has any perls of wisdom. > > 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?? >
Two things come to mind. First up I'd hunt down info on transcode and secondly on mencoder which is the encoder that ships with mplayer. Transcode is the swissarmy knife of video/audio encoding and decoding for Linux it's CLI and the number of switches and options is kinda mind boggling but it's hard to match in terms of power of flexibility. Mencoder I haven't used quite as much but is by all accounts fairly accomplished and speedy What you want to do with the videos is fairly simple and very much standard so a quick google will probably reveal a transcode command where all you need to do is pop in the appropriate filename and away you go. The one other thing you'll require is codecs a search around for xvid, divx, lavc (or libavcodec) and ffmpeg will help there. If you're using debian most of that can be found at Christian Marillat's unoffical deb repo which has recently moved to deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat unstable main IIRC. Be sure to replace unstable with testing or stable as appropriate then a quick apt-get install transcode and you should be away. I'm pretty sure that grabs most of the codecs you'll require the only other ones you may need would be called w32codecs I'm not a rpm based user but my guess is a quick search on a site like FreshRPMS or the like will reveal similar for distros based on them > 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. Can't help so much with the capture. Haven't had much experience there. HTH Dan. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
