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The Grumpy Editor's video journey, part 1
The Grumpy Editor's video journey, part 1
Posted Dec 13, 2007 9:13 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's video journey, part 1 by vmlinuz
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's video journey, part 1
It's probably more accurate to say 'mencoder reflects the complexity of digital video' rather then just saying the tool is complicated. It's not easy stuff. There are a lot of choices you need to make between quality and performance and trade-offs are a natural part of everything. Linux tools like Mencoder or Transcoder are going to be what you need to get the best out of your encodings. The best quality for the smallest files.. this is what their game is about. Otherwise you have two choices... Either take generic defaults and sacrifice quality for usability or have very large files and throw hardware/storage at the problem. Cheap, Easy, Quality: Pick two.
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Reasonable defaults
Posted Dec 13, 2007 15:08 UTC (Thu) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]
No doubt that mencoder is a great tool. One would only wish to have some command line switches, or ready-made scripts, for common tasks, like animating a series of images, or re-encoding a video, that can be played on the default Windows Media Player on my mothers computer. If someone knows about a "Mencoder for Dummies" site, please post it here.
Reasonable defaults
Posted Dec 17, 2007 19:59 UTC (Mon) by stefanor (subscriber, #32895) [Link]
I agree about mencoder being able to do almost anything. I learned to use it from using mplayer, and I think that's the best way to approach it. The options are reasonably straight forward (most of the time). I find mencoder to be more capable than transcode / gstreamer / vlc, but none of them can do everything, and most of them I don't know them quite well enough...
Reasonable defaults
Posted Dec 19, 2007 11:10 UTC (Wed) by KotH (subscriber, #4660) [Link]
There are tons of sites on MEncoder (and MPlayer) just use google to find them. And if you don't want to read them, you can use one of the hundreds of the front ends to MPlayer and MEncoder most of which are listed on the MPlayer homepage (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html). BTW: MPlayer and MEncoder are written with a capital second letter.