Matt Brown wrote:
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 14:48 +1300, Daniel Lawson wrote:
There is the package 'transcode' under linux, although I've never used it myself.
I've used it a fair bit for ripping DVDs. It's an excellent program and it works really well.
The downside is that it's quite difficult to use and has huge long arcane command lines. On the plus side there are heaps of examples on the website that you can usually just copy / paste from.
See the homepage at http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/ or their wiki at http://www.transcoding.org/ for more information .
HTH Regards
Just been through this myself trying to get a windows media file into a sensible format. Mencode is great as it will read almost any format and write most sensible formats without too much hassle. I recall a lot of applications were around that could transcode but for the most part you had to split the audio/video process individually then recombine, all requiring lots diskspace. Mencoder seemed to pull all this together nicely in a just do it kinda manner