Linux script for mencoder.

First, just updated my post with version .2, added aspect ratio autodetection (it _should_ work roughly)

@mfb

I agree OggdropXP has a nice user interface. About the drag&drop thing, I've just placed my script in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ and I can just select the files from nautilus... maybe I could add a little wrapper to show a zenity progress bar with some captions. I don't know about KDE, but I guess there'd be a similar way to do it.

Now, a GUI for profiles is a different animal... a much more complex one, which I don't know if it deserves the time. I don't use different profiles, and I really don't know if people usually do.

If we wanted to do a full-fledged multi-platform GUI, I guess we could still rely on mencoder, and write it in python or something alike. I'm just not sure if it's worth the time and effort!

Anyways, it's an interesting discussion.

pd: why are we doing Meizu's job? :P

Cheers!

Originally Posted by wishmechaos

@mfb

I agree OggdropXP has a nice user interface. About the drag&drop thing, I've just placed my script in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ and I can just select the files from nautilus... maybe I could add a little wrapper to show a zenity progress bar with some captions. I don't know about KDE, but I guess there'd be a similar way to do it.

Yes, using: ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/enteranamehere.desktop

Now, a GUI for profiles is a different animal... a much more complex one, which I don't know if it deserves the time. I don't use different profiles, and I really don't know if people usually do.

If we wanted to do a full-fledged multi-platform GUI, I guess we could still rely on mencoder, and write it in python or something alike. I'm just not sure if it's worth the time and effort!

Python is nice. :D There is only one small problem with it on win32: Windows users like static things which basically means a simple application can become around 15MB in Python.

Anyways, it's an interesting discussion.

pd: why are we doing Meizu's job? :P

Because Meizu refuses to do so. I've been working at adapting the Xvid-profiles in the mencoder source to make a 100% compatible M6-profile (No stuttering or failing, higher possible bitrate). It's something that meizu could have done, as they know how their decoder, and could have embedded in a proper encoder. Instead, I'm trying to guess the parameters and trying over and over which takes time of which I don't have a lot to spare currently.

I've started to learn kommander scripting just for the gui... And there is a very nice one that can be adapted, 3gpwiz. If you search for it in google you'll find it in kde-apps. I am thinking on doing some work on a meizu version soon, using only mencoder (3gpwiz uses mencoder for the first pass and ffmpeg for the second and third ones).

mencoder includes ffmpeg libraries btw.

Originally Posted by BobbyQ

mencoder includes ffmpeg libraries btw.

Yes, I know. 3gpwiz uses ffmpeg directly because it needs a specific version of ffmpeg with amr support enabled.

Originally Posted by mfb

Python is nice. :D There is only one small problem with it on win32: Windows users like static things which basically means a simple application can become around 15MB in Python.

Mh, that's true, but it's pretty much the price for platform-independence, unless it's written in a compilable language. Which is out of my league (unless you count visual basic!). Most multiplatform software is in Java, with JRE's huge overhead, and people seem to like stuff like Azureus.

What about VB or C#?

C# is quite easy, it runs under mono in linux.

Originally Posted by deviance

C# is quite easy, it runs under mono in linux.

How about C++ with Qt4? :P It runs under Windows, Linux and Mac using native look and feel.

Mono basically is shit, it's kind of like WINE. No native look and feel whatsoever.

Well, Evolution is Mono, and the look and feel is OK. Anyways, I don't like it much... C++ with QT4 would be better (smplayer does this and it's great), though QT stuff looks out of place under Gnome.

And I'd have to learn C++

Guys, I've got a problem with that...
I've pasted that, what Shooky wrote in #7 post at 1st page.
when I put:

Code:

filippo@filippo-desktop:~$ meizu-convert home/filippo/deathnote13.rmvb /media/DataStorage/meizuvid/

It says:

Code:

/usr/bin/mencoder: /home/filippo/mono-1.2.6/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/mencoder)
MEncoder 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
File not found: '~home/filippo/deathnote13.rmvb'
Failed to open ~home/filippo/deathnote13.rmvb.
Cannot open file/device.

Exiting...

I know I'm doing something wrong, but i don't know what it is

Best regards.

the path does not exist.

after first look i think you just forgot the / in front of home.

try /home/filippo/deathnote13.rmvb instead of home/filippo/...