[olug] Video Conversion Help

[Joe Gulizia]

I use ffmpeg to convert YouTube videos to mp3 audio files for personal media players.  I found a YouTube video on using ffmpeg.  I have also used Avidemux to convert videos as well as Kino.  VLC just never transcodes right for me.  Avidemux does have an easyto use converter TO DVD...not sure about going the other way however.

Joe


--- On Thu, 12/25/08, Jordan Fox <vmifox at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jordan Fox <vmifox at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Video Conversion Help
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 2:00 PM
> recently I just converted some files from mpeg2 to h.264.  I
> went the really
> easy way and used VLC.  That's probably not the best
> solution for what you
> want, but it is really easy, and it works.  There is
> another program called
> winFF - it's available for both windows and linux. 
> It's a front end for
> ffmpeg.  I can't remember the specific reason I
> didn't use it, because it
> looked pretty easy, but something wasn't working right
> for me.  Check out
> the MPlayer webpage, as there are a few mencoder front-ends
> that would make
> it easy.  If, as you say, you don't mind writing some
> scripts, then your
> probably diligent enough to use mencoder or ffmpeg from the
> command line or
> write a script for it.  I didn't want to take the time
> to learn all the
> different flags and other encoding specific info.  I know
> the basics, but I
> just wanted to convert a few files quickly without trying
> to figure
> something out.
> 
> H.264 works really well, there is an x.264 free codec for
> linux.  I don't
> really know much about it though.  Other than some of the
> proprietary stuff,
> I really like the h.264.  I can't tell the difference
> in visual quality on
> the videos I converted from mpeg2 to h.264 and the files
> went from being 1.1
> GB to ~225 MB.  Pretty good in my book, but I'm not a
> huge audio/video
> purist, so I don't know how good the quality really is.
> 
> I can't help you with the ps3 stuff as I don't have
> one.  Although, I
> thought about getting one, so I could have my own personal
> linux
> supercomputer.  But, I don't really like sony for the
> same reasons I don't
> like apple or ms - they try to lock you into their
> proprietary stuff all the
> time.  (But they lose money on every console, so I could
> stick it to the man
> by buying one - at least that's what I tell myself when
> I think about buying
> one)
> 
> I hope all this rambling helps.
> 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html
> 
> http://winff.org/html/
> 
> Merry Christmas,
> Jordan
> 
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:02 PM, T. J. Brumfield
> <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > I believe I was asking along these lines before, but
> I'm not sure I
> > asked specifically about software programs.  Either
> way I am going to
> > rip my entire DVD collection (about 400 discs) and I
> would prefer that
> > my PS3 can play the video files I spit out.  I can
> eventually build a
> > Linux home theater PC, but the PS3 picks up shared
> video files just
> > fine for me at the moment.  The PS3 seems fickle about
> what it plays.
> > It supposedly supports a bunch of codecs, but it
> won't play one XVID
> > file, and then it plays another.  That is an issue
> I'm going to take
> > up with a Sony PS3 forum, or tech support.  However,
> I'm looking for
> > an app (can be Windows or Linux as I dual-boot) to
> help me rip the
> > DVDs and convert the files.
> >
> > I'm not opposed to a bash script and doing it via
> the command line.
> >
> > I'm assuming mpeg-4/mp4 files with h.264 encoding
> is the way to go,
> > but frankly I'm not set on a container or codec. 
> If it looks pretty
> > good, I can get a movie around or under 1 gig in size
> (that is what
> > I'm hoping for at least) and it will play,
> I'll be happy.
> >
> > Suggestions for apps and methods?
> >
> > -- T. J. Brumfield
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