Linux G-Spot Alternative?

[Seagrass]

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?

[Cobra]

I've moved this thread to the Linux Forum - hopefully it will get a reply more quickly here.

(I'm afraid that I don't know Linux very well so I don't have anything to offer you)

[tekkieman]

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)

[oldcpu]

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).

[Seagrass]

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]

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]

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]

I have mplayer already installed how do i access the mencoder gui?
command line gives error: file.avi not found recompile with -disablecpudetect

[oldcpu]

There is really but one alternative under Linux: Mplayer/Mencoder

Doesn't tovid call mencoder by default?

[lpn1160]

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]

tcprobe from Transcode is good too.

Good old 'file' command doesnt go astray when you only need simple info about the file.

[binks120]

tovid is the best(well easiest converter for nix) check the developers out on irc.freenode.net #tovid

[Carrot Cruncher]

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]

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]

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]

ffmpeg -i filename