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Transcode - The video transcoder to rule them all

Posted Oct 21, 2004 15:31 UTC (Thu) by stock (guest, #5849)
Parent article: Transcode - The video transcoder to rule them all

yes this surely looks like a winner, but it gets even better: Add your dual Opteron or AMD64 iron with a native X86_64 build Linux distro : from the Changelog : http://www.zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/pre/ChangeLog :

     
transcode-0.6.12     
     
  * Terse/less technical ChangeLog:     
  Changes:     
  o tccat: use '-T 1,-1 -P' instead of '-P 1'.     
  o --avi_limit option: Defaults to 0 (disabled) instead of 2GB.     
     
  Fixes:     
  o avilib: 64bit issues and other compiler support. <=======X86_64     
  o v4l: building with linux-2.6 headers.     
  o xvid import: check for more library sonames.     
  o dvd import: The DVD device may be a char device (osx).     
  o im import: segmentation fault at closing time.     
  o tcrequant: upstream bugfixes.     
  o xvid import: fix library loading on MacOSX.     
  o dv import: Do NOT apply a setup when decoding the DV frame. Last     
    frame was skipped in NTSC.     
  o yuv4mpeg import: read files produced by streamer.     
  o -c option: rounding error, only 99 frames of 100 for NTSC.     
  o make distcheck: correct inclusion of config.h file.     
  o libavcodec: building without mmx.     
  o maintaining: included sdl.m4 and glib.m4 in acinclude.m4     
     
  New:     
  o avilib: Writing AVI 2.0 (OpenDML) files.      
    xine (with my submitted patch) plays such files nicely.     
  o denoise3d filter: very fast denoiser.     
  o fraps import: decode AVI files from www.fraps.com.     
  o v4l2: reading from a video4linux2 device.     
  o control filter: read and executes a control "script"     
  o ffmpeg import: DV raw decoding support (-i file.dv -x ffmpeg).       
  o sh import: executes the input file and reads its output.     
  o mp1e export: module based on mp1e, a mpeg1 encoder.     
  o os: Support for AMDs x86_64 architecture.	<================X86_64     
  o --export_par option: sets the pixel/sample aspect ratio.     
  o script: bash completion for transcode with tccomplete.source.     
  o docs: layout fixes so it will look good on www.transcoding.org     
  o ffmpeg export: new codecs namely ffv1, asv1 and asv2.     
  o --export_prof option: sets mpeg "profiles" so that transcode     
    tries can be smart and guess clipping and zooming options.     
  o docs: DV to DVD HOWTO including scripts.

Linux is starting to move ahead in the 64bit Multimedia and Workstation world. Another nice commandline driven script is tovid which can be found here : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=190354 and here : http://tovid.sourceforge.net/

Robert

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