About:
transcode is a text console video-stream processing tool. It supports elementary video and audio frame transformations. Some example modules are included to enable import of MPEG-1/2, Digital Video, and other formats. It also includes export modules for writing to AVI files with DivX, OpenDivX, XviD, Digital Video or other codecs. Direct DVD transcoding is also supported. A set of tools is available to extract and decode the sources into raw video/audio streams for import and to enable post-processing of AVI files.

Release focus: Major bugfixes

Changes:
aclib was made more silent. tcxpm2rgb was speeded up. The ffmpeg export module RGB was fixed. libmpeg3 detection was improved using libmpeg3. NUV is supposed to work only on x86, so this constraint is enforced in configure. A latent segfault in export_dv and export_dvraw was fixed. export_ffmpeg now properly encodes in h264 again using recent libavcodecs. export_ffmpeg no longer improperly mangles output filename if it is "/dev/null". avilib indexes initialization was fixed, which solves some segfaults when closing. fame initialization was fixed. V4 ioctls are used in OSS import modules.

Author:
Thomas Östreich [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.42/10.00 (28 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.transcoding.org/
Tar/BZ2:
http://fromani.exit1.org/transcode-1.0.5.tar.bz2
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://cvs.exit1.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/transcode/
Bug tracker:
http://tcfoundry.hostme.it/mantis
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.exit1.org/mailman/listinfo/transcode-users
Mirror site:
http://fromani.exit1.org

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: BSD :: BSD/OS, POSIX :: Linux
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion, Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion

Dependencies: [change]
LAME (Default branch) (recommended)
liba52 (Default branch) (recommended)
libdv (Default branch) (recommended)
libdvdread (Default branch) (recommended)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0.5	09-Jan-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	0.6.4.20030409	16-Apr-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.0.5	Major bugfixes	09-Jan-2008 23:22
1.0.4	Minor feature enhancements	16-Sep-2007 11:41
1.0.3	Minor bugfixes	16-Apr-2007 14:12
1.0.2	Code cleanup	18-Jun-2006 08:27
0.6.12	Minor feature enhancements	09-Jan-2004 10:36
0.6.11	Major feature enhancements	06-Nov-2003 13:30
0.6.10	Minor feature enhancements	09-Sep-2003 06:53
0.6.9	N/A	23-Aug-2003 16:58
0.6.8	Minor feature enhancements	11-Jul-2003 00:24
0.6.6	Minor bugfixes	27-May-2003 12:14

 Comments

[»] Where is XviD zones support?
by Justin Turner Arthur - Oct 27th 2004 09:05:45

In version 0.6.12, using the latest version of xvid4conf, I do not see support for XviD 1.x zones at all. This is pretty important for transcoding rips so that the credits don't waste your file size.

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[»] tools/avimerge
by Michael Wojciechowski - Jul 17th 2001 19:34:42

If you would like to merge avi-files together then
tools/avimerge
can do it for you...

/wojci

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/wojci

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[»] not to be nitpicking,
by Marcus - Jun 15th 2001 04:47:54

but a .vob file is usually a program stream according to iso/iec 13818-1 and not a system stream according to iso/iec 11172-1. And the
program stream on a DVD is even more restricted, e.g. by a packet size of 2048 bytes.
In the interest of those who want to transcode other than DVD program streams, it should be made clear what the program can and cannot do.

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[»] Re: not to be nitpicking,
by Thomas Östreich - Jun 15th 2001 05:31:18

Currently transcode relies on "mpeg2dec" . Any MPEG system/program/video stream "mpeg2dec" is able to decode into raw video frames (RGB) should work as input. Same for audio. You need the "ac3dec" package or "mpeg3cat" from "libmpeg3" to extract and decode to raw audio (PCM). Apply the patches to stream to stdout.

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