[theora-dev] ffmpeg2theora 0.28 released

[j***@v2v.cc]

ffmpeg2theora 0.28 - http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/

Some changes that went into this release:
- select resize method via commandline
- fix 5.1 channel ordering
- update to FFmpeg 0.7 branch
- additional bug fixes

Source:
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/downloads/ffmpeg2theora-0.28.tar.bz2
svn co https://svn.xiph.org/tags/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.28

Binaries:
Linux 32bit
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.28.linux32.bin
Linux 64bit
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.28.linux64.bin
Mac OS X
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.28.pkg
Windows
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.28.exe

[j***@v2v.cc]

- Document prominently versions of used lib's (Theora, Vorbis, FFMPEG)
(versions of Theora and Vorbis can be peeked out with some effort,
FFMPEG is "top secret" ?)

in 0.28 get_ffmpeg.sh gets the 0.7 branch of ffmpeg, that only gets
security related fixes.

- Merge FFMPEG2THEORA with FFMPEG2DIRAC (0.2.0 is out as fork of
FT0.27) and add support for FLAC output (optional, besides Vorbis)

one issue is that codecs have not the same set of options so even if its
one binary you have to provide other knobs based on the codec.

j

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

ffmpeg2theora 0.28 released

Thank you :-)
- Document prominently versions of used lib's (Theora, Vorbis, FFMPEG)
(versions of Theora and Vorbis can be peeked out with some effort,
FFMPEG is "top secret" ?)
- Better progress indicator (for example number of frames processed or
% of input file size)
- Better summary at end (total number of frames processed, broken
frames, time used for the work, source and dest file size)
- Merge FFMPEG2THEORA with FFMPEG2DIRAC (0.2.0 is out as fork of
FT0.27) and add support for FLAC output (optional, besides Vorbis)

I think the concept of merging ffmpeg2theora & ffmpeg2dirac is a good
one, but I think some of us should get together and work with j^ and
others to work on the possibility of making a (better name than this)
"any2free" encoding utility which will be optimized for outputting in
free formats such as those supported by and promoted by the Xiph
Foundation, including, for example, VP8/WebM. This would be a great
boon toward open media, I think.

It would not be easy, and while ffmpeg2theora could be leveraged, I
think it's a lot to ask only j^ to do that, it should be an effort of
more people working together.

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar

Post by Basil Mohamed Gohar

ffmpeg2theora 0.28 released

Thank you :-)
- Document prominently versions of used lib's (Theora, Vorbis, FFMPEG)
(versions of Theora and Vorbis can be peeked out with some effort,
FFMPEG is "top secret" ?)
- Better progress indicator (for example number of frames processed or
% of input file size)
- Better summary at end (total number of frames processed, broken
frames, time used for the work, source and dest file size)
- Merge FFMPEG2THEORA with FFMPEG2DIRAC (0.2.0 is out as fork of
FT0.27) and add support for FLAC output (optional, besides Vorbis)

I think the concept of merging ffmpeg2theora & ffmpeg2dirac is a good
one, but I think some of us should get together and work with j^ and
others to work on the possibility of making a (better name than this)
"any2free" encoding utility which will be optimized for outputting in
free formats such as those supported by and promoted by the Xiph
Foundation, including, for example, VP8/WebM.  This would be a great
boon toward open media, I think.
It would not be easy, and while ffmpeg2theora could be leveraged, I
think it's a lot to ask only j^ to do that, it should be an effort of
more people working together.

Why not write a script that calls ffmpeg2theora or ffmpeg2dirac
depending on what the target format is? This way the individual tools
can all be kept simpler.

Silvia.

[j***@v2v.cc]

* text output is now colourful (was white in <= 0.27)

please file a bug with information on the input used and some example
output.

* "est size" is broken, says "-0.0 MB" ... (was OK in 0.27)

all files or only for some inputs? please file a bug too.

* imports from "AVICAP32.DLL" (0.27 did not have this
issue, some earlier 0.2xx versions had, now it's back ...)

this is due to avisynth support, does it cause problems,
could you file a bug with more information what the issue is.

thanks,

j

[j***@v2v.cc]

Post by Basil Mohamed Gohar

- Merge FFMPEG2THEORA with FFMPEG2DIRAC (0.2.0 is out as fork of
FT0.27) and add support for FLAC output (optional, besides Vorbis)

I think the concept of merging ffmpeg2theora & ffmpeg2dirac is a good
one, but I think some of us should get together and work with j^ and
others to work on the possibility of making a (better name than this)
"any2free" encoding utility which will be optimized for outputting in
free formats such as those supported by and promoted by the Xiph
Foundation, including, for example, VP8/WebM. This would be a great
boon toward open media, I think.

what would be the benefit compared to ffmpeg or a custom build of it,
besides possibly better defaults?

Some time ago I also put together gst2ogg, with a command line interface
like ffmpeg2theora but using GStreamer and supporting more codecs.
bzr branch http://tools.v2v.cc/gst2ogg/

j

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

Post by j***@v2v.cc

Post by Basil Mohamed Gohar

- Merge FFMPEG2THEORA with FFMPEG2DIRAC (0.2.0 is out as fork of
FT0.27) and add support for FLAC output (optional, besides Vorbis)

I think the concept of merging ffmpeg2theora & ffmpeg2dirac is a good
one, but I think some of us should get together and work with j^ and
others to work on the possibility of making a (better name than this)
"any2free" encoding utility which will be optimized for outputting in
free formats such as those supported by and promoted by the Xiph
Foundation, including, for example, VP8/WebM. This would be a great
boon toward open media, I think.

what would be the benefit compared to ffmpeg or a custom build of it,
besides possibly better defaults?
Some time ago I also put together gst2ogg, with a command line interface
like ffmpeg2theora but using GStreamer and supporting more codecs.
bzr branch http://tools.v2v.cc/gst2ogg/
j

Better defaults, simpler interface, and a single utility to direct
people to, much as we do currently for ffmpeg2theora in general.

gst2ogg is a great idea, for GNU/Linux systems. The advantage of
ffmpeg2theora is that it's portable across multiple platforms.