a good video converter?

arunvk · 11-27-2009, 12:26 AM

HI,

I have been googling for over a week now to find a good video converter. I hv installed a few like pspv, winff but none of them delivered. I always run into some error or the other.. like winff always gives me unknown encoder libfaac. then I was trying to get faac installed some source..

Yeah I know this has been asked before.. but can anyone please direct me to a good video converter. I have experimented with ffmpeg but I dont want to remember so many commands.. all I want to do is convert my video clips to play in my psp... thats all...

right now I am downloading mediacoder.. its a windows version.. I hope it works well with wine..

I use fedora. THanks.

AwesomeMachine · 11-27-2009, 01:49 AM

MPlayer comes with mencoder. It's a pretty full featured video converter. You would need to read a bit how to use it. But it's good.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-27-2009, 05:16 AM

You can do this using ffmpeg to encode videos to play on psp:
http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC25

Here's how to do the same thing using mencoder:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en...dheld-psp.html

lazlow · 11-27-2009, 09:48 AM

You can try avidemux. It works pretty well and has a lot of automatic settings. It should be in most distros repos.

arunvk · 11-28-2009, 10:37 AM

Hi H_TeXMeX_H,

When I use the command mentioned in the guides, I am running into errors.

For mencoder, I get Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec aac.

For ffmpeg, I get unknown encoder libfaac

do I have to install any other package. I hv been installed many packages to resolve a similar error.

Hi lazlow,

I have installed the software. will give it a try. thanks.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-28-2009, 10:40 AM

It certainly looks like the major problem here is that you don't have faac properly installed. Try to install a package for it. You're running Fedora 11 ?

I know they have packages here at least:
http://www.atrpms.net/dist/f11/faac/

I don't know if faac comes with the distro.

arunvk · 12-01-2009, 03:38 AM

hi H_TeXMeX_H

I have already installed faac using yum.

based on ur reply I have installed libfaac from the link using the --force option because there was conflict between an already installed version.

But I still get the error : Unknown encoder 'libfaac'

Regards,
Arun V.K.

H_TeXMeX_H · 12-01-2009, 04:15 AM

Remove all versions of faac and then re-install it.

If that still doesn't work, maybe mplayer and ffmpeg were compiled without faac support, in which case you would need to get ones with faac support enabled, or build your own.

i92guboj · 12-01-2009, 05:27 AM

Most encoders will share the same library anyway, so if the problem is truly that lib, then you will probably have to encode aac in any app you try, until you have a working libfaac.

About having to remember so many settings... That's what aliases and shell functions are for. Once you have a correct command line to encode a file to whatever video format you wish, just save it as a shell function and use it in the future. For example, I use this one to prepare videos of my band for youtube with mencoder:

Code:

function youtubize () {
  mencoder "$1" \
    -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq:keyint=250:threads=2:vpass=1 \
    -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 \
    -ffourcc XVID -vf scale=640:-2,crop=640:480,expand=640:480 \
    -af resample=44100:0:0 -o "$2"
}

I have this in my ~/.bahsrc. Then I just do:

Code:

youtubize in_file.avi ~/tmp/out_file.avi

It can't really be any simpler in avidemux, overall when I have to convert so many files from time to time:

Code:

for file in *.avi; do youtubize "$file" "$HOME/tmp/yt_$file"; done

Just an example, I feel more comfortable when I can use all the bash capabilities at a given time and I am not limited to the options available in a GUI.