Joe Emenaker wrote: > > There are a few roadblocks that I'm currently stuck on, however. I'm > wondering if your script avoids them. > 1 - I've found a few cases where, if transcode can't figure out the > container or if it doesn't know how to decode a certain video encoding > (I forget which), it defaults to using /dev/zero and ends up running > forever... or until the disk fills up or I kill it.
True. You might want to look at this: http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode?MplayerProbe To see an example of how to leverage mplayer's probing ability to "help" transcode. Also note that using the '-x mplayer,mplayer' option with transcode leverages mplayers nearly miraculous playback abilities into transcode's import module, but that you will need to analyze the results of an mplayer probe to construct other transcode options (for example to pass through mp3 audio).
