Re: MPEG encoders?

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:14:21PM -0700, Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> Hello. I'm a long-time Windows hobby animator (
> http://www.geocities.com/pterandon/anims.html ) who's
> just getting into linux.
> 
> 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.

First, for political and humanitarian reasons, why not switch to Ogg
files with Vorbis audio and theora video?  Then you will enjoy no patent
problems, unlike MPEG.
 
> I'm trying to get away from mencoder.  Back in
> Windowsland, we had wonderful free apps like TMPGENc,
> which had the courtesy to offer us a GUI to show us
> what it could do. 

It isn't that bad.  You figure out what options you need once, then you
pack them into a one to three line script to call in the future.  With a
gnome (and probably KDE) desktop, those scripts can be easily set up to
be drag and droppable (drag directory of images onto one script and it
spits out a mpeg, grab an uncompressed avi onto another script and also
get an mpeg).

I suspect that this is what many people who hate typing all the CLI
options do.
 
> Any recommendations for MPG-I  encoding apps? 

Try konverter?
http://www.kraus.tk/projects/konverter/


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