Hi All! This weekend I hacked together a set of tools for video conversion: Quick and Dirty Video Tools. A collection of utilities slightly modified (or completely rewritten) to provide video format conversion under Linux. Currently supports MPEG-1 and 2 systems for input (soon to include QuickTime), and MPEG-1 systems, QuickTime and Display output. Formatting operations are at the moment only resizing and cropping. This was initially intended to recompress mp1e captured streams to IBP frame streams for greater compression, but since then I generalised it to include MPEG-2 inputs and QuickTime, and hopefully soon AVI to. The main claim-to-fame is that it requires NO TEMPORARY FILES! That's right, you can recompress that 2GB stream without needing another 4GB of drive space! As a bonus, it is also capable of playing DVDs (unencrypted and no navigator support) and VCDs (works quite well), although playback is pretty bad (about 17 fps on a VCD on an Athlon 600). It does however keep good a/v sync! If anybody is interested it can be found at: http://www.ee.up.ac.za/~justin/videostuff/ -justin -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
