View source for Converting Video For DIVX Devices

Testing with 2010 Equinox.

=archlinux=
 pacman -S dvdrip libdv xvidcore
 yaourt divx4linux
 sudo pacman -Sv mplayer

==mencode==
*http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mencoder

Quoted from Gentoo Wiki:

Before jumping into details, let's look at the basics for re-encoding a video file from a format MPlayer can play to an MPEG4. Here is a very simple example:

 mencoder movie.wmv -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc

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Here's an explanation each option being passed:

* '''movie.wmv''' the filename of the original movie file you want to re-encode. It can be any file format that mplayer can play (mplayer can play almost anything). 

* '''-o <filename>''' the filename to save the encoded file to. On older version of MPlayer, if you do not provide an argument, mencoder will output to "test.avi". 

* '''-ovc <video codec>''' OVC stands for 'output video codec'. This is the library you want to use to encode the video. 

* '''-oac <audio codec>''' OAC stands for 'output audio codec'. This is the library you want to encode the audio portion with. 


Believe it or not -- that's about all you need to know about re-encoding a file. The example above will encode the video to DivX (mpeg4) video and the audio track to mp2.

If you want to see how another file has been encoded, just run {{Codeline|midentify movie.avi}}. You can also run {{Codeline|file movie.avi}} on the new file for a more basic description. Or, if you have media-video/transcode installed, you can use {{Codeline|tcprobe -i movie.avi}} as well.

===mtvcgui===
*gui
 yaourt mtvcgui
*More for capture devices, no divx out of the box, looks like you can edit an ini (http://easycap.blogspot.com/p/mtvcgui.html)

===divxconverter===
*gui
 yaourt divxconverter
*run with
 python2 /usr/bin/divxc

===More GUIs===
*http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html#mencoder_frontends

=Testing=
==ffmpeg==
*Works (Equinox took 2 min to load a listing of one file, then would play)
*To high of bitrate (source file smaller then non source)
*Just testing but for what I am doing I do not think I need some of the command line options

 ffmpeg -i DEFCON\ 20\:\ Owned\ in\ 60\ Seconds\:\ From\ Network\ Guest\ to\ Windows\ Domain\ Admin.webm -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1500k -s 648x480 -ab 128k -vtag divx output.avi

==mencoder==
 mencoder movie.wmv -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc

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==divx converter==
Both filesizes bigger then original
*default settings - Works with Equinox
*hardware compatible - Audio does not play with equinox.  Video worked first time but second time played corrupt.