mencoder & avidemux2

mencoder & avidemux2

Posted Mar 29, 2006 17:47 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
Parent article: Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com)

Hmm, I can't seem to find any real thoggen packages for FC5... or an FC for that matter.

Anyway...

The method I use is to rip the DVD track with mencoder and then use avidemux2 (found in the DAG repo [FC3 package works fine on FC5]) to convert it to an .ogm. Works rather well.

mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1500 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=192:cbr:vol=4 -o trackname.avi

Sometimes I have to add in aspect ratio related flags.

Then just load it into avidemux2... set the video type to xvid, two pass encoding calculating the desired size by figuring 1MB per minute... set the audio to 48 kbit ogg... apply video filter to rescale x to 320... and adjust FPS to 12... setting the file container type to .ogm. Sounds like a lot of work but avidemux2 is very GUI and has visual crop, crop detect... all of that stuff.

Using that method, I can reduce a video into something that streams nicely using 1/2 of a 256 Kbit DSL connection... and that comes in barely over 1MB minute. A two hour video converts into approx. 150MB which isn't bad. Yeah, I know the quaility isn't high-def but it is very good considering the space savings... and it is very friendly for remote video streaming even on the lowest DSL connection.

I'd like to try thoggen if I can find a package. I don't like to build stuff from source too often because it makes upgrading things a PITA.

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