Video conversion help

[jevidl]

Because video conversion is the only thing keeping a windows install on my computer, I would love to find something in linux that will let me do the following tasks:


Must Haves
Ability to convert XviD or DivX codecs to (S)VCD compatible MPEG files.
Ability to resize files
Ability to add black borders


Would be Nice
Resizing using bilinear resizing
Additional filters to clean up the video
(think AVIsynth)
Batch encoding.

Dreaming
Ability to rip and include subs from OGM.

Any help that can be given would be great. I really would rather not have to use one of the non-linear editors because I really don't need editing cabailities at all, outside of what I included above. This is truly the only thing keeping me on windows...

[teknomage1]

mencoder which ships with mplayer is ll you need. It definitely does everything from the first category, is a command line program so it's batch friendly, and has some filters. I'm not sure subtitles-wise but you can alway try it out.

[jevidl]

I will have to take another look at mplayer/mencoder. I had used ffmpeg in the past with some issues, but when I get home I guess I will try slapping mencoder around a while. I will post back with how it goes.

[woodmeister]

I don't know if you have kdelibs installed, but if so take a look at konverter. It's just a gui for mencoder and I'm not sure if it allows batch encoding. However, it does make using mencoder a lot easier and allows cropping/scaling etc

mark

[ChojinDSL]

Have you tried avidemux? Its a lot like virtualdub.

[Nate_S]

Transcode will also do all that and more. It's also CLI and can be scripted. I'd recommend you search around as some scripts have been written to do pretty much exactly what you want with transcode, and it can be confusing to try to learn transcode from it's man pages.

-Nate

[jevidl]

[jevidl]

/me sighs.

It appears as though transcode does not support adding borders. Back to the drawing board...

[teknomage1]

going out on a limb, assuming you have enough hd space, why not output uncompressed with borders from mencoder, then compress it with transcode?

[jevidl]

Interesting idea, if I can't get ffmpeg to do what I want I might have to do that. I would really prefer something a little more streamlined.

In essence, avisynth did that. It would serve frames to the encoder after running the appropriate filters, without the middle man. I might be able to setup some kind of an mplayer frameserver as well... wow. interesting, very interesting... I don't know how well it would work out in practice, and I am still going for ffmpeg first - but thanks for the inspiration!

[FishB8]

I don't know if the said software supports it, but if you use pipes instead of actual files, you wouldn't even need the hd space!
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[m707]

[mean]

Try avidemux2
It may not be as powerful as transcode/mencoder but you will do what you want with less than 6 mouse clicks.

/end of shameless self promotion.

[Nate_S]

Yes transcode can add black borders. Also, for some GUI tools, look into avidemux2 and lve. (I perfer CLI myself.)

You also might read some of the scripts mythtv uses. (usefull even if you don't use mythtv) As of right now, there is very little transcode support buildt into mythtv, so most everything is done with external perl/bash scripts. So for some good examples, emerge nuvexport, and check out some of the scripts on the mythtv wiki at mythtv.info.