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Posted May 22, 2009 4:43 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Transmageddon and Arista pursue simple transcoding by pr1268
Parent article: Transmageddon and Arista pursue simple transcoding

>...demand that every codec switch...

That is close to true about mencoder, but I have found ffmpeg usually does the right thing for common target formats with very few switches (mainly to set the bit rate).

...who regularly recycles a script...

me too, and that is the nice thing about a command-line tool: once you have tweaked the settings to your satisfaction, you can reuse it easily.


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