My ideal encoding Mac app

[phatsbig]

I've seen a number of encoding apps over the net for Mac, many of which are very good (OpenShiiva, DiVA, ffmpegX, forty-two, Handbrake). However, none seem to fit my ideal requirements.. so, i thought i'd post this hypothetical spec to hopefully start some discussion.

Video/Audio Import/Export
- Source can be M2V (plus optional audio file), VOB, Elementary streams or VIDEO_TS folder (unencrypted versions with ability to select single or multiple titles/chapters/angles for encode).
- Video encoding using Xvid, DivX 5.1 or 3ivx.
- Audio encoding using mp3, Ogg Vorbis, aac.
- Automatic 2 pass encoding settings for Xvid, DivX 5.1 or 3ivx.
- Option to select which audio track (from VOB's) to use in encode and an audio preview of the track.
- Option to specify end file-size, spilt files or create CD/DVD burnable disk images.

Tools/Extra Features
- High quality de-interlacing tools for different field types.
- Option to control resizing (with adjustable scaling methods), cropping, aspect ratio, displayed size and frame rate of video prior to encoding.
- Option to clean video prior to encoding.
- Option to add customized text at start of first few frames.
- Option to encode a test version (with customizable start and end in frames or minutes/seconds).
- Option for dynamic range compression and normalization on audio.
- Option to adjust brightness, contrast, gamma and rgb color values.
- Audio sync problems minimized or removed.

Note: This spec is aimed purely at my requirements which tend to be MPEG2, VOB or VIDEO_TS Ripping. Although including other codecs would obviously be a benefit.

[tgpo]

Sounds like a sweet program to me. Now how close does ffmpegX come to this?

I'm very happy with what all we Mac users have now. When I started making VCDs it took 2 days to make just one. The process was insane. Now with all the tools we have it's a matter of hours.

[bullitB]

Well, this goes with the old saying about engineering: Your result can be on time, to spec, within budget; pick two. 8)

I think what you're describing would be something of a dream application, and there's some rule about that such a thing is impossible to make for free, and difficult to make even for money. I can tell you that I think most of the developers are going in the direction you're talking about here, so stay tuned.

[Thargok]

Mediapipe will get you pretty close +/- some options, and it is slow.

[phatsbig]

Mediapipe will get you pretty close +/- some options, and it is slow.

Thats a very good point.. with all these new encoding apps, i'd forgotten about Media Pipe.
Just viewing their site, and they seem to have been regularly updating it.

Thanx for that!