Re: GUI converter frontends (was: MPEG encoders?)

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 12:04 -0700, Emile Snyder wrote:
> That said, I think that a transcoding/encoding gui is sorely lacking in
> the free UN*X world (or at least I haven't found one that helps me
> much).
AviDemux is pretty good, and I think it would be great if it supported
more of ffmpeg's outputs esp. DV coding. 

There are GTK and KDE frontends to mencoder, but mencoder is severely
lacking in the output format department--pretty much just AVI,
supposedly MPEG program streams, but rather immature last I checked.
transcode only seems to have a DVD ripping oriented frontend, could be
wrong. However, here is another tool I left out http://gmerlin.sf.net/.
VLC has some capabilities I have not really explored.

The approach I have developed for my anytodv.sh and anyto3gp.sh scripts
is to use mencoder on the input side where it is the strongest due to
its mplayer foundation. I use either lossless (ffv1) or uncompressed AVI
as the intermediate file. Then, I use ffmpeg on the output side, where I
think it is most flexible. I think it would be nice to see a GUI around
this approach.




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