MPEG4 / Divx : http://www.divx.com/
Check out the Philips MPEG4 Demo at : http://www.mpeg-4player.com Video encoding :
Divix codec:
Computers / Software / Graphics / Capture
Some cool apps to captures the action from your Windows 9x or NT screen and saves it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file http://www.hyperionics.com http://www.techsmith.com
Encoding
ffdshow is a DirectX 's Direct Show decoding filter for decompressing DIVX movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.
mkroot@ttyp7[[tmp]]# mkmovixiso -o /tmp/iso /dev/null
Your iso image is now in "/tmp/iso": *rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680000 2004-01-17 12:22 /tmp/iso You can safely delete the temporary directory /tmp/movix-1074338553
root@ttyp7[[tmp]]# du -ms /tmp/iso 8 /tmp/iso
root@ttyp7[[tmp]]# mkmovixiso --movix-version 0.8.0
#rzr@nrv:video/$ uname -a Linux nrv 2.4.22-amiloa #21 mer déc 10 17:51:40 CET 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
libmad: ALERT input buffer too small ( bytes, 0 avail)====== audio_alsa_out: snd_pcm_open() of front failed: Invalid argument audio_alsa_out: >>> check if another program don't already use PCM <<<
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg04999.html
but works fine with mplayer
Some bugs reports and tests I just tested the 0.96 version and it don't work better than 0.95 Hardware: laptop amilo (w/ Radeon IGP 320M) : http://rzr.online.fr/linux.htm
but with 0.94's video is fine
0.95 works ok on viavo sony laptop
I am preparing an debian package of geexbox Interessed ? Do you accept patches ? Come back to http://rzr.online.fr/linux.htm pretty soon
List of hardware compatible with Geexbox http://beb59.no-ip.com/geexbox/
Debian Port : (add RzR sources list )
http://rzr.online.fr/debian/sources.list apt-get update ; apt-get install geexbox-generator
# Usage: /usr/local/bin/mkisofs-geexbox.sh -o /tmp/ /local/video/linux-gpl.avi /local/video/opensource.ogg # -o path = .iso's place
4916 /tmp//geexbox-0.96-custom.iso # empty iso
Bug / Kernel refuse to load :
Software : GeexBox version 0.97 (on 2004-07) Hardware : VIA Eden EPIA 800 mainboard. Only DVD/CD/ROM is connected to main board
Error Message :
isolinux 2.09 0x40a7A0b7 isolinux loadibg spec packet failed extremly broken bios detected last ditch attmept w/ drive = 9F isolinux disk error 01 AX = 4270 drive 9F
But knoppix based kernel boot with no troubles
http://www.viavpsd.com/vpsdcontacts/index.jsp
.97 = 5,63 Mb 5912576 bytes
[[tcprobe]] unknown file type [[tcprobe]] filetype/codec not yet supported by 'transcode'
http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/faq.cipp#faq3
Dont use NFS over fat32 FileSystem
apt-get install -t unstable \ dvdrip toolame transcode ogmtools avifile-win32-plugin \ libtheora0 avifile-xvid-plugin xvid4conf rar \ xine-ui subtitleripper dvdrip-doc libdv-bin pvm transcode-doc \ libfame-0.9 libgtk-perl libgtk-pixbuf-perl libintl-perl \ libpvm3 libquicktime1 ogmtools xvid4conf \ libavcodeccvs libavifile-0.7c102 libdv4 libfaac0 libreadline5 \ avifile-player avifile-utils avifile-mad-plugin \ avifile-mjpeg-plugin avifile-vorbis-plugin \ avifile-divx-plugin libopengl-perl libintl-xs-perl doc-base rar-2.80 \ # dvdxchap subtitle2pgn