Re: MPEG encoders?

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 08:09 -0400, Brett McCoy wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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 

As a Kino developer, thanks for the plug, Brett, but it is only really
appropriate if you have DV as the source. One probably does not want to
manually transcode to DV in order to export to another. Also, he would
need to manually add command line switches to export I-picture only
MPEG, which is what I believe he specifically requested.

I recommend he try AviDemux: http://www.avidemux.org/
It is similar to VirtualDub, which he probably used on Windows, and it
is popular enough it might be in his distro already.

One word of caution on Linux distros. Most of them are crippled in MPEG
encoding support due to the need to license patents. You then have to go
out of your way to seek out the appropriate unofficial package
repository to add the capability. Just indicate your distro here and
people can make recommendations.




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