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Looking for an Xvid encoder

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:04 pm
by Ambush Commander
I've tried out AutoGK and StaxRip so far. AutoGK is workable, but it has abysmal support for batch jobs. StaxRip, theoretically speaking should be a bit better, but after downloading a boatload of dependencies, it still complains that I have the wrong version of MKVToolnix (I reinstalled it three times) and combusts spectacularly when I try to do anything with it. At this point, I'm not looking forward into some heavy duty googling to get Stax working. I have approximately 50 small thirty second to one minute clips that I need to compress.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:37 pm
by Weirdan
what about mencoder?

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:39 pm
by Ambush Commander
Looks interesting. Does it have a GUI?

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:51 pm
by Weirdan
Ambush Commander wrote:Looks interesting. Does it have a GUI?
I believe it's called Mplayer

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:55 pm
by Ambush Commander
I mean for the encoder itself. I did a little research and it doesn't look like this is the case. Bummer.

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:05 pm
by Weirdan
Ambush Commander wrote:I did a little research and it doesn't look like this is the case. Bummer.
Are you sure none of the google results for 'mencoder frontend' suit your needs?

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:08 pm
by Ambush Commander
There are a number of unofficial frontends for mencoder, but no "official" one. That's not very encouraging. I'm currently trying out a number of them, will report back results.

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:42 pm
by Ambush Commander
Gah! ::Tearing hair out:: iriverter works but it resizes the video and is specifically for portable video devices. The rest of them are for DVD ripping. I took another whack at StaxRip and it combusted again. Tried mencoder but I keep getting errors.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:55 pm
by Ambush Commander
Update: Used AutoGK to get the job done. I was not pleased that it took four clicks to add a single file, but at least it worked. :-)