Re: [theora] ffmpeg2theora 0.28 released

On 08/02/2011 03:36 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
>> - Merge FFMPEG2THEORA with FFMPEG2DIRAC (0.2.0 is out as fork of
>> FT0.27) and add support for FLAC output (optional, besides Vorbis)
> I think the concept of merging ffmpeg2theora & ffmpeg2dirac is a good
> one, but I think some of us should get together and work with j^ and
> others to work on the possibility of making a (better name than this)
> "any2free" encoding utility which will be optimized for outputting in
> free formats such as those supported by and promoted by the Xiph
> Foundation, including, for example, VP8/WebM.  This would be a great
> boon toward open media, I think.

what would be the benefit compared to ffmpeg or a custom build of it,
besides possibly better defaults?

Some time ago I also put together gst2ogg, with a command line interface
like ffmpeg2theora but using GStreamer and supporting more codecs.
 bzr branch http://tools.v2v.cc/gst2ogg/

j