From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 21:05:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4659437B401 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A0043FE5 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:05:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h3M456fs017116; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:05:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:05:06 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Joe Pokupec Message-ID: <20030422040506.GE36860@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Free BSD List Subject: Re: Video Compression Apps X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 04:05:08 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 21), Joe Pokupec said: > I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I have a file server set up on 4.7 using Samba > for file services and Apache for web services. I have lots of videos > that I capture from TV and save in MPEG1 (VCD) format and store on > the FreeBSD box. > > Does anyone know of an app that can be scripted or scheduled (using > cron) to regularly convert these MPEG1 video files into DIVX or > MPEG4? For that matter, are there any MPEG1 or DIVX video editors > and/or capture utilities available for FreeBSD 4.7? ports/multimedia/ffmpeg is probably what you're looking for. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com