Good command line video encoder or help w/ ffmpeg

[Jakobud]

In my job, we capture a lot of short DV uncompressed AVI's and I am trying to figure out the best way to convert them all everyday. In a given day we end up with upwards of a couple hundred short videos (10 seconds is average length). So I am looking for a good command-line based video encoder so I can do a bunch of batch encoding. I'd like to be able to encode in something like DivX or maybe just use an Indeo encoder. In any case, I need a command-line based program where I can control the bitrate and be able to specify the video to set a keyframe on every single frame of video (so I can easily scrub the video anywhere).

I have been looking at ffmpeg. Seems quite powerful, except I am confused on how to tell it exactly what format to encode in. I'm not sure what is best. And I can't figure out how to make it keyframe every 1 frame of video. Does ffmpeg use any codec? Or just it's own codecs? Can I encode DivX with ffmpeg? Can anyone help me?

Jakobud

[flaninacupboard]

keyframing EVERY frame in Divx is enirely pointless. the size/quality it achieves is because it has maybe one keyframe to 200-300 delta frames. kill those delta frames and your video is hosed.

Try MJPEG.

don't know a command line editor, but TMPGenc is a powerful bit of kit that you can create a template for and encode with the same settings every time.