Archive for the tag 'divx'

How to convert matroska MKV to AVI on Linux ?

Today, I discover that my M3100 player doesn’t know how to play Mastroka files. Mastroka files are really kool since the subtitles are embeded in .. but that’s it, my player refuse to play open it.
This stuff can be repack in a AVI (xivd..) file with some open source tools. Here, a little script to [...]

admin May 8th, 2007

Howto change the sound in a video (divx)

This afternoon, I compiled some video with Kino. This stuff works quite good. The main issue I had is that I want to have a nice music in background. I spend a little time, with transcode but I soon figured that FFmpeg can do that easily.
ffmpeg -i my_music.mp3 -i in_video.avi -vcodec copy ouput.avi
You can [...]

admin August 16th, 2006

Extract soundtrack (MP3) from DVD with mplayer

I ‘m wondering if i gonna add a mplayer tips here ? :)
To extract a mp3 from a DVD, the easy way is to use transcode
transcode -i /dev/dvd -x dvd -T 1,2,1 -a 0 -y raw -m track22.mp3
But sometimes, this doesn’t works.. in fact I get a random transcode segfault. As mplayer is the perfect [...]

admin December 26th, 2004

Building mpeg/avi/divx with a webcam

This is a small tips to build a avi/divx/mpeg/what you want, with webcam as input in realtime. Simply use mencoder (the encoder build by the mplayer team)
mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=160:height=120 -ovc divx4 -o test.avi
Take care, that you should respect the width/height of the current webcam settings.

admin January 21st, 2004