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Reasonable defaults

Posted Dec 13, 2007 15:08 UTC (Thu) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's video journey, part 1 by drag
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's video journey, part 1

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.

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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.