Powerful Multimedia Command-Line Tools, Part II—Transcode

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 19, 2008 11:04 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By Girish Venkatachalam
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MEncoder has supported video encoding for a long time with the MPlayer Project and FFmpeg, which also now is part of MPlayer now. Transcode is a new command-line tool on the horizon for video and audio transformations. Transcode used to give me horrors, but it is much better now. It does take some time to learn its wonderfully unintuitive syntax—the author used all the lowercase and uppercase English alphabet letters for specifying the command-line options. Using longer mnemonic options common in other Linux commands might have made things easier. Anyway, let's get to the meat of the matter.

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