On Friday 01 February 2002 06:41, Matthew Johnson wrote:

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 21:39, Clayton Cornell wrote: In my attempts to break my "heroin addiction" to Windows, I have a question for everyone... one of the last few Windows applications I have not been able to replace is a slick little program called VirtualDub. I use it on a regular basis to re-encode episodes of Enterprise that I download each week. The best quality episodes are MPEG encoded at about 450MB each. I can use VirtualDub to re-encode to AVI using the latest DivX and get a file size of about 200MB - that means I can cram 3 episodes onto one CDROM instead of 1 per CDROM if I leave them alone.

So, the question is, are there are any Linux apps that can do this?

I haven't discovered anything yet. BCast2000 is targetted (as far as I can tell) at building a video.. stitching audio tracks to video etc. All I want it an app that will simply re-encode a video to a DivX4.x codec.... haven't found one that did it either reliably, or at all. Any suggestions would be more than welcome.

C. -- This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows reboot...

Xine might be able to do this...

Matt

I poked through the Xine Howto, and it looks like Xine is basically direct competition for my preferred DivX player, MPlayer. They do about the same thing... playback of virtually every video format on the planet. That, unless I missed something, does not give me a tool to re-encode video files. But... the reference to Xine twigged something in the unorganized clutter of my mind.. I now remember something about Mplayer 0.60 having something called MEncoder - I looked it up, and yes indeedy, it's there... a command line encoder. No nice GUI wrapper for it yet though, but I can live with a command line version for now, if it does the job. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/encoding.html Having a fuzzy remembery is a pain some days. C. -- This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows reboot...