[SLUG] compress videos post Kino?
I've been using Kino to record videos of my BJJ training and competitions [1]. Kino's all working nicely but I've noticed that the videos (.avi version 2) are large - too large to record to dvd for backup. What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would recommend? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] MEncoder experience
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:41:18PM +1100, Sebastian Spiess wrote: Hi all, I've started using mencoder to reduce size of the videos I take with my digicam. up to now I've used something along the line of mencoder P1020451.MOV -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=96:mode=3 -of avi -o wallaby.avi as I have not much of a clue I used these settings and they gave me much smaller videofiles which play on my ubuntu with no problems. But as you can see I use mpeg4 and not ogg. What would be a good setting for ogg? Do you have any suggestions for optimising the video compacting? BTW: I tried using some of the MEncoder GUIs all to no avail. they where all complicated to install, dependencies etc... suggestions are welcome! any reason for using ogg, the guys on the mailing list are rather not happy with ogm and ogg for video. I would suggest moving to x264 and aac in a mkv container. this is what i use on my video files from my digital camera (power shot g10 - cannon). my requirement was ease of view from over the internet. also I use 2 pass encoding and mp4 and scales to quarter pal ~ 300bits (this is a cut and paste from the output of my scripts lanrisk.addr is the input file) Video Pass 1/2 nice mencoder -really-quiet -vf scale=::qpal,hqdn3d=2:1:2,pp=de,uspp=5,harddup -af volnorm=1\ -ovc x264 -x264encopts \ pass=1:turbo=2:nob_pyramid:bframes=1:subq=6:frameref=3:partitions=all:me=umh:weight_b:threads=auto:qcomp=0.75:mixed_refs:nofast_pskip:trellis=2:nodct_decimate:nopsnr:brdo:bitrate=300 -oac faac -faacopts br=128:object=2:tns:mpeg=4 -passlogfile \ /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/divx2pass.log -o /dev/null \ lanrisk.addr -idx/tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stdout.txt \ 2/tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stderr.txt nice mencoder -really-quiet -vf scale=::qpal,hqdn3d=2:1:2,pp=de,uspp=5,harddup -af volnorm=1 -ovc x264 -x264encopts pass=2:nob_pyramid:bframes=1:subq=6:frameref=3:partitions=all:me=umh:weight_b:threads=auto:qcomp=0.75:mixed_refs:nofast_pskip:trellis=2:nodct_decimate:nopsnr:brdo:bitrate=300 -oac faac -faacopts br=128:object=2:tns:mpeg=4 -passlogfile /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/divx2pass.log -o /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/lanrisk.addr.avi lanrisk.addr -idx /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stdout.txt 2/tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stderr.txt nice MP4Box -aviraw video /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/lanrisk.addr.avi -out /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/lanrisk.addr.h264 /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stdout.txt 2/tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stderr.txt nice MP4Box -aviraw audio /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/lanrisk.addr.avi -out /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/lanrisk.addr.aac /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stdout.txt 2/tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stderr.txt nice mv /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/lanrisk.addr_audio.raw /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/lanrisk.addr_audio.aac /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stdout.txt 2/tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stderr.txt nice MP4Box -add /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/lanrisk.addr_video.h264 -add /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/lanrisk.addr_audio.aac -new lanrisk.addr.mp4 /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stdout.txt 2/tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stderr.txt nice touch -r lanrisk.addr lanrisk.addr.mp4 /tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stdout.txt 2/tmp/user/1000/myConvert.14Xa4/stderr.txt Cheers, Seb -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Over 75 percent of white Americans own their home, and less than 50 percent of Hispanos and African Americans don't own their home. And that's a gap, that's a homeownership gap. And we've got to do something about it. - George W. Bush 07/01/2002 Cleveland, OH signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Firewall Distributions, Questions.
# cross post /u-au/slug I am looking to set up a hardware firewall using an old computer and a Linux distribution and am curious about a few things. To start with, I'll attempt a diagram to show you how my network is currently set up. My home network is set up like so : Modem/Router | _Switch_ | || | | | MBMF FS DT U1 U2 *(MB) - Mythbuntu Back-end *(MF) - Mythbuntu Frontend *(FS) - Fileserver *(DT) - Dedicated Torrent | Downloader *(U1) User (me) *(U2) User (wife) I am assuming with 2 NICs in the old computer, you dump it between the switch and the router and connect both the switch and modem/router to it. So it would look something like Modem/Router | NIC1 Firewall NIC2 | _Switch_ | || | | | MBMF FS DT U1 U2 Based on my set-up, which of the following would you recommend and why? pfSense, MoNoWaLL, Clark Connect. (Do you know any others?) I understand policies could be configured for all of them to allow SSH etc, but I'd like something that does not require me to mess with modules extenively as I am not *tha*t technically savvy. From what I've read pfSense seems to be the go, but I wouldn't know why exactly. Smoothwall is out of the question due to its lacking NIC driver support. Any suggestions greatly appreceated, Harrison. -- Harrison Ghys. http://www.sydney-linux.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: compress videos post Kino?
On Sunday 01 March 2009 21:01:35 Sonia Hamilton wrote: What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would recommend? This might not be the answer you want but have you thought about using Kino to produce .flv format ? The resulting video using broadband quality isn't all that good but it's good enough for YouTube and other video streaming sites. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj Yes, done a lot of that -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] compress videos post Kino?
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:01:35AM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I've been using Kino to record videos of my BJJ training and competitions [1]. Kino's all working nicely but I've noticed that the videos (.avi version 2) are large - too large to record to dvd for backup. What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would recommend? have a look at avidemux [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- I don't have people coming in the rope line saying, 'I'd like a new bridge, or how about some more highway money.' They're coming to say, 'I'm coming to tell you, Mr. President, I'm praying for you.' - George W. Bush 09/12/2006 Washington, DC said to journalists in the Oval Office (as reported by the National Review) signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firewall Distributions, Questions.
Only heard good reports of monowall But for mine, iptables is easy enough once you understand it. Kind Regards Kyle Blindraven wrote: Based on my set-up, which of the following would you recommend and why? pfSense, MoNoWaLL, Clark Connect. (Do you know any others?) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] compress videos post Kino?
Mencoder is your Swiss army knife of encoders. It's not on debian by default so it may not be in ubuntu. Dean On 02/03/2009, at 8:01 AM, Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net wrote: I've been using Kino to record videos of my BJJ training and competitions [1]. Kino's all working nicely but I've noticed that the videos (.avi version 2) are large - too large to record to dvd for backup. What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would recommend? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firewall Distributions, Questions.
Blindraven wrote: Based on my set-up, which of the following would you recommend and why? pfSense, MoNoWaLL, Clark Connect. (Do you know any others?) ubuntu-server and shorewall. the documentation for shorewall two-interface setup should be all you need. http://shorewall.net/two-interface.htm You get the most bang for your buck going this route. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] compress videos post Kino?
BJJ ! Who do you train with Sonia? I'm with Bruno Panno over @ Gracie Sydney. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: Mencoder is your Swiss army knife of encoders. It's not on debian by default so it may not be in ubuntu. Dean On 02/03/2009, at 8:01 AM, Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net wrote: I've been using Kino to record videos of my BJJ training and competitions [1]. Kino's all working nicely but I've noticed that the videos (.avi version 2) are large - too large to record to dvd for backup. What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would recommend? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] compress videos post Kino?
Sonia Hamilton wrote: I've been using Kino to record videos of my BJJ training and competitions [1]. Kino's all working nicely but I've noticed that the videos (.avi version 2) are large - too large to record to dvd for backup. What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would recommend? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj Hi Sonia, FFMPEG and FFMPEG Theora integrate with Kino to provide compression. I use Ogg, as the open, format but FFMPEG also does MPEG4 - though I am not sure of the licensing on that. You can also run FFMPEG on its own, but it doesn't have a graphical interface. See links from: http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/acs-os-sig.html#slide4 If you were making a DVD you would need MPEG2 compression (though this is licensed at the encoder). I recently came across the AMV format on a portable Multimedia Video Player, which I documented here: http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/index.shtml#mvp Marghanita -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au Phone: (+61)0414 869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firewall Distributions, Questions.
G'day Harrison, On Monday 02 March 2009 19:57, Blindraven wrote: snip Smoothwall is out of the question due to its lacking NIC driver support. Have you considered IPCop http://www.ipcop.org/ (an early fork from smoothwall) or Endian http://www.endian.com/en/ (a commercial fork from IPCop). Both have more hardware support than Smoothwall. For supported hardware see ... http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?module=pnWikkatag=IPCopHCLv01 http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?module=pnWikkatag=IPCopIDMap HTH Glen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firewall Distributions, Questions.
Glen Cunningham wrote: G'day Harrison, On Monday 02 March 2009 19:57, Blindraven wrote: snip Smoothwall is out of the question due to its lacking NIC driver support. Have you considered IPCop http://www.ipcop.org/ (an early fork from smoothwall) or Endian http://www.endian.com/en/ (a commercial fork from IPCop). Both have more hardware support than Smoothwall. For supported hardware see ... http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?module=pnWikkatag=IPCopHCLv01 http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?module=pnWikkatag=IPCopIDMap HTH Glen I second IPcop, its really simple to setup, all niceley web based. makes life nice and simple, all pointy clicky web based stuff ;- I had terrible trouble trying to get PFsense to run a bridged ADSL modem. (IE I couldn't get it to work at all) some problem with the pppoe thing they started using that can handle multiple bridged ADSL connections or something, that's all good, but it doesn't seem to work for a single connection any more :- ipcop i was up and running in 15 minutes. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: compress videos post Kino?
Richard Ibbotson wrote: On Sunday 01 March 2009 21:01:35 Sonia Hamilton wrote: What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would recommend? This might not be the answer you want but have you thought about using Kino to produce .flv format ? The resulting video using broadband quality isn't all that good but it's good enough for YouTube and other video streaming sites. Thanks everyone for your replies - I'll try each of .flv format, avidemux, and mencoder. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj Yes, done a lot of that Yeh, bjj, it should be called the geeks martial art - it's not called physical chess [2] for nothing :-) [2] http://clothing.cafepress.com/item/physical-chess-bjj-hooded-sweat-shirt/137870493 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] compress videos post Kino?
2009/3/2 Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net: I've been using Kino to record videos of my BJJ training and competitions [1]. Kino's all working nicely but I've noticed that the videos (.avi version 2) are large - too large to record to dvd for backup. What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would recommend? mencoder, transcode, ffmpeg The thing to remember is that the file extensions you see on most videos (.avi, .mov, .ogg, etc.) are indicators of their container formats and are not reflective of the codecs used within. The container multiplexes a few data streams, most commonly an audio and a video track. You could also have other tracks to cover subtitles, closed captions, translations, commentary, and so on. So what you ought to be examining is the audio and the video format used within the container. A lot of stuff you find on the Internet contain DivX or XviD video with MP3 audio. You can get better audio quality/compression if you used Vorbis instead. If audio isn't important, you could cut out that stream altogether. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firewall Distributions, Questions
Only heard good reports of monowall But for mine, iptables is easy enough once you understand it. ... Firehol, a pretty high level language of writing iptables rules (http://firehol.sourceforge.net/, also available as an rpm package) might be of help. It is for me. Cheers, -- Jack -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firewall Distributions, Questions
Jack Olszewski ja...@hermes.net.au writes: Only heard good reports of monowall But for mine, iptables is easy enough once you understand it. ... Firehol, a pretty high level language of writing iptables rules (http://firehol.sourceforge.net/, also available as an rpm package) might be of help. It is for me. I strongly recommend firehol if the OP is looking to use a generic Linux system to build a firewall and router from. OTOH, I understood from his comments that what he really wanted was to replace one appliance with another, even if it was Linux underneath.[1] Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Actually, given the way many modem/router appliances are built these days it may well be Linux underneath in both cases, but the on desktop hardware version is likely to be less resource constrained. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firewall Distributions, Questions.
I burned off Smoothwall, IPCop, Clark Connect, Monowell and pfSense. I installed all of them and spent around half an hour with each of the web interfaces. Shorewall looked promising in theory but did not have Wifi shaping which is something I was after. After having a good play with all of them I found pfSense to be the most complete package, especially it's speed distribution and shaping which is perfect for my torrent box. It took 8 minutes to install and about 20 minutes to get working under the right configuration using it's web interface. It's defaults are also very sane and were more complete and in my opinion better implemeted than IPCop which would have been my second favourite from the lot. Again, it did not have the dynamic shaping, and only supported a 50/50 scenario. Thanks heaps for the tips ! Harrison. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.comwrote: Glen Cunningham wrote: G'day Harrison, On Monday 02 March 2009 19:57, Blindraven wrote: snip Smoothwall is out of the question due to its lacking NIC driver support. Have you considered IPCop http://www.ipcop.org/ (an early fork from smoothwall) or Endian http://www.endian.com/en/ (a commercial fork from IPCop). Both have more hardware support than Smoothwall. For supported hardware see ... http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?module=pnWikkatag=IPCopHCLv01 http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?module=pnWikkatag=IPCopIDMap HTH Glen I second IPcop, its really simple to setup, all niceley web based. makes life nice and simple, all pointy clicky web based stuff ;- I had terrible trouble trying to get PFsense to run a bridged ADSL modem. (IE I couldn't get it to work at all) some problem with the pppoe thing they started using that can handle multiple bridged ADSL connections or something, that's all good, but it doesn't seem to work for a single connection any more :- ipcop i was up and running in 15 minutes. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
