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Seagrass
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Post Posted: Mar 17, 2006 16:35 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I need a stream information tool like g spot for SuSE 10.
Does anyone know of any?

Also what is the best avi-2-DVD converter for Linux. I am currently trying out avidemux.Do I need a seperate dvd author?

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Post Posted: Mar 18, 2006 15:07 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I've moved this thread to the Linux Forum - hopefully it will get a reply more quickly here. smile.gif

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Post Posted: Mar 19, 2006 08:08 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
For avi to dvd, try tovid

For avi info, try idvid. You will get it with tovid. There is also a manual for it on the tovid site. There is a large dependancy list for tovid, but I use debian, and apt-get handled it with no problem. One of the dependancies is dvdauthor, and that will handle the authoring (tovid provides an xml structure for dvdauthor)
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Post Posted: Mar 19, 2006 08:51 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I also recommend tovid. It works fine on SuSE-9.3 and SuSE-10.0.

One can download precompiled rpms (for SuSE) of tovid from here:

SuSE-9.3:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.3-i386/RPMS.suser-oc2pus/

SuSE-10.0:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/RPMS.suser-oc2pus/

I run tovid-0.23 on my SuSE-9.3, and tovid-0.25 on my SuSE-10.0. (I couldn't get tovid-0.25 to run on my SuSE-9.3, although clearly "suser-oc2pus" did succeed. tovid requires a newer version of python-wxGTK than comes with the baseline SuSE, and I didn't want to upgrade my python-wxGTK as it would have broken some other dependencies. But tovid-0.23 works fine for me).

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Seagrass
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Post Posted: Mar 19, 2006 15:16 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
how do you get the gui to appear?
It says its installed and when i type tovidgui in terminal the program runs but there is no gui?

oldcpu
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Post Posted: Mar 19, 2006 16:12 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Seagrass wrote:
how do you get the gui to appear?
It says its installed and when i type tovidgui in terminal the program runs but there is no gui?

The list of tovid dependencies are here:
http://tovid.berlios.de/en/dependencies.html

To get tovid gui to run, you need wxPython 2.6 or newer.

In my case, I run the tovid gui with: /usr/local/bin/tovidgui.py

There is a tovid forum, where you can get good support to resolve difficulties:
http://www.createphpbb.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=tovid

lpn1160
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Post Posted: Mar 19, 2006 16:25 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
There is really but one alternative under Linux: Mplayer/Mencoder
Read the docs on the website plus the man pages
I have personaly tried all the gui's out there and the only thing for me that works good, is mencoder

Seagrass
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Post Posted: Mar 19, 2006 23:51 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I have mplayer already installed how do i access the mencoder gui?
command line gives error: file.avi not found recompile with -disablecpudetect

oldcpu
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Post Posted: Mar 21, 2006 18:10 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
lpn1160 wrote:
There is really but one alternative under Linux: Mplayer/Mencoder
Doesn't tovid call mencoder by default?

lpn1160
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Post Posted: Mar 23, 2006 01:48 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Mencoder by itself does not have a gui. When I first came over from windows a few months ago I tried all the gui's out there, but I found the best solution was to use mencoder at the terminal. I read the guides over and over till I learned. learn the command line and you won't be sorry. The real power of linux is in the command line, using konsole, copying and pasteing from scripts makes life a lot easier

as for a g-spot alternative try this: mplayer -vo dummy -identify inputfile.avi

this is what it might retun::

AVI file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
VIDEO: [XVID] 528x384 12bpp 29.970 fps 1306.5 kbps (159.5 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: Nandub v1.0rc2
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
ID_FILENAME=xdmnx-pph11.avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=XVID
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=1306480
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=528
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=384
ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.970
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=mp3
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=85
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=4143


Good-luck

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html

DaveQB
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Post Posted: Apr 19, 2006 09:11 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
tcprobe from Transcode is good too.

Good old 'file' command doesnt go astray when you only need simple info about the file.
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Post Posted: Sep 21, 2006 05:31 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
tovid is the best(well easiest converter for nix) check the developers out on irc.freenode.net #tovid
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Carrot Cruncher
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Post Posted: Oct 18, 2006 15:56 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
is anyone aware of any tools, preferably command line, that will show if a file has been encoded using qpel and/or gmc ? i don't believe that either idvid or tcprobe will show this. thanks.

Carrot Cruncher
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Post Posted: Oct 19, 2006 17:40 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
to answer my own question and maybe help others. this tool shows qpel and gmc info :

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=87516

redtux
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Post Posted: Dec 21, 2006 09:40 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Seagrass wrote:
I have mplayer already installed how do i access the mencoder gui?
command line gives error: file.avi not found recompile with -disablecpudetect


Nope - ffmpeg

redtux
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Post Posted: Dec 21, 2006 09:41 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
ffmpeg -i filename

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