Re: ogg to mpeg

Phil Ehrens wrote:
> Francesco Romani wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:57 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
>>> I am trying to convert some of the http://www.thesourceshow.org/node/11
>>>   files into something cinelerra can edit (mpeg or dv)
>>>
>>> like this one:
>>> http://www.archive.org/download/AaronNewcombEpisode1-_TheFilesystemMenace_-December23_2006_theora_/episode001_lg.ogg
>>>
>>> It isn't erroring, but it isn't converting either.
> 
> Why not use the mp4 formatted version they provide? The quality
> will be much higher (or *should* be anyway).
> 

according to the site, the ogg is the high quality.  except for one maybe. 
don't really care any more :)

>> Uhm, ogg, very likely theora video + vorbis audio; until  import modules
>> are rewritten (I'm working on this on those days, code will land in HEAD
>> during this month), the most viable alternative is import_mplayer,
>> import_ffmpeg being a second alternative that needs a few more work.
> 
>  -x mplayer,mplayer will work fine, assuming you also specify
>  geometry, aspect ratio, and framerate info from the first
>  script on this page:
> 
>  http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode?MplayerProbe
> 
>>> transcode v1.0.2 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg
>> Please update at very least to 1.0.6rc2, much better to 1.1.0beta0.
> 
> For god's sake, yes, do upgrade (I would say to 1.06rc2)!

yeah, for the v4l2 stuff I was building head - for this I figured it would just 
work.

> 
> You also might want to check out avidemux, unless you really
> know that cinelerra is the right tool for what you want to do.
> 

I have been playing with cin for the last few weeks.  it has its quirks, but so 
far it seems to be working out.  I have been able to distill a crap load of 
footage into 2 60 minute final products.

> I'm not suggesting that the crap programs available for Windows and Mac
> are worth 2 cents, but Linux video software is in a pretty messy state
> overall. Still no decent editor, and no decent subtitling program.
> Transcode can make dvd's that totally blow away even the best commercial
> dvd's, by the way... But I don't know why. Unless all the "pros" are
> total idiots.

In what way is the tc produced dvd better?

Carl K