Re: MPEG encoders?

Greg M. Johnson wrote:

> I am getting into linux for the political and
> humanitarian reasons as much as anything.  As much as
> I'm against how Microsoft operates, I think the whole
> nonsense with hand-typing out complicated commands in
> non-GUI apps  is even more something to rail against.

Command-line tools are still very prevalent in Linux -- a lot of of the 
video tools especially work well in a command-line environment so they 
can be piped together in all kinds of crazy combinations, and work well 
as backends to a variety of interfaces (GUI, scripted, etc).  This has 
been the philosophy of Unix for decades -- make one tool that does only 
one thing and does it very well so it can be used in combination with 
other tools that do their one thing very well.  It's easy enough to plop 
a GUI over top this kind of thing.

That said, what kind of video are you converting from?  If you are 
making your MPG videos from raw digital video, Kino is a decent GUI for 
editing and encoding to a variety of formats.  There are tools like the 
smilutils package that can take a set of animation frames and render 
them into RawDV or AVI that can be used in Kino.  Kino uses MJPEG and 
ffmpeg tools underneath, and let you customize your transcoding if you 
need to (or you can just use the defaults).

http://kino.schirmacher.de/article/archive/0

-- Brett
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