MPEG Tools

The mjpeg programs are a set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux.

Recording is supported for the Zoran based cards like the Buz (Iomega), DC10 (MIRO, Pinnacle), Matrox Marvel cards and the LML33 (Linux Media Labs). See related pages to the right to find the right driver for your card.
The recorded videos can be converted to MPEG streams. The software playback of MPEG streams works with almost every player and every OS.
You can produce special forms of MPEG streams like VCD (Video CD) and SVCD for hardware playback.

A key design objective of the tools is interoperability with other video tools:
The tools can be used used to edit, playback and compress motion JPEG (MJPEG) AVI's captured using the xawtv package.

The tools can be used to edit playback and compress MJPEG streams created and editted with broadcast 2000. N.b. the current mpeg2movie high bit-rate MPEG encoder is in large part derived from an obsolescent snapshot of the mjpegtools MPEG encoder.

Transcoding of MPEG-2 streams to MPEG-2/MPEG-1 is supported through patches to the output drivers for mpeg2dec and ac3dec tools from the Linux Video and DVD Project.

dv2jpg converts a DV codec-encoded AVI stream (from dvgrab, for example) to an mjpeg-encoded AVI stream that can be processed by the mjpeg tools package. The mjpeg AVI can be converted to mpeg video/audio and burned onto a VCD later.

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MeGUI

MeGUI is a video conversion application, which was primarily designed to be a DVD ripper, but is capable of many transcoding tasks. It is essentially a frontend for many free tools, but also includes a number of utilities to enhance the conversion process.

Features

• Powerful job queue support, with in-place job editing, related job linking, play/pause controls, etc.
• Parallel job execution makes job processing very flexible and improves speed on multi-core systems.
• Automatic interlace detection can analyse your input video to determine whether it is progressive/interlaced/film/hybrid, and also determine field order.
• AutoUpdate keeps MeGUI and its assisting programs up-to-date and eases installation.
• Audio encoding also based on Avisynth, which allows highly accurate editing of audio, including sample-accurate audio cutting.

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FlasKMPEG

FlasKMPEG is a free open source digital video converter software that allows you to convert MPEG content into a other formats using your computer. It has a few editing capabilities so you can use to prepare your film or video assets. The program has an open architecture that allows for extended capabilities through the use of plugins.

FlasKMPEG takes MPEG streams (video streams are currently not supported) and encodes them into another format, trying to achieve the maximum possible quality and trying to minimize the conversion impact providing a straightforward approach to the MPEG1/2 to MPEG/AVI conversion.

FlasKMPEG uses 'plugins' to support output formats making that way the program more flexible, and having a wide variety of output options.

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