[olug] Video Conversion Help

[Adam Lassek]

There's some OK Linux applications for encoding, such as mencoder or
Avidemux (a Virtualdub <http://virtualdub.org> clone), but there's a LOT of
tweaking you'll want to do before final encoding in order to make the video
look really good.

In my experience, you can't beat Avisynth <http://www.avisynth.org/>. It's
an open-source video processing system for Windows that creates a video
frameserver that you can manipulate through a simple scripting language. You
can do really advanced ivtc/deinterlacing that simply isn't possible
elsewhere. It's also significantly faster than most applications. If you
need help setting up a test workflow, I can give you some pointers.

The doom9 <http://doom9.net/> forum is a good place to go for help as well.

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?
>
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