theora - Sep 2005 - Quicktime 2 Theora Transcoder's Nano-Howto

After a bunch of cumbersome testing I was able to transcode a Quicktime 
MOV file to OGG with theora and Vorbis. The method's a bit fumbly, but 
it works... It is automatable except for the initial audio decoding.

Software used: Xine, oggenc, ffmpeg, ffmpeg2theora, oggzmerge

Step 1: Get the video out of Quicktime

ffmpeg -i infile.mov -b 5000 -f mpeg2video outfile.mpg

Step 2: Get the video into theora

ffmpeg2theora -v 3 outfile.mpg

Step 3: Get the audio out of Quicktime

xine infile.mov
(Select 'File' for audio output plugin and play the whole clip once)

Step 4: Get the audio into Vorbis

oggenc -q -1 --downmix xine-out.wav

Step 5: Merge the results to the finished video

oggzmerge outfile.mpg.ogg xine-out.ogg -o outfile.ogg


Hope this is helpful to someone... Improvements welcome.

Carlo

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:30:25 +0200
Carlo Capocasa <capocasa@gmx.net> wrote:
> After a bunch of cumbersome testing I was able to transcode a
> Quicktime MOV file to OGG with theora and Vorbis. The method's a bit
> fumbly, but it works... It is automatable except for the initial
> audio decoding.
> 
> Software used: Xine, oggenc, ffmpeg, ffmpeg2theora, oggzmerge
> 
> Step 1: Get the video out of Quicktime
> 
> ffmpeg -i infile.mov -b 5000 -f mpeg2video outfile.mpg
> 
> Step 2: Get the video into theora
> 
> ffmpeg2theora -v 3 outfile.mpg
> 
> Step 3: Get the audio out of Quicktime
> 
> xine infile.mov
> (Select 'File' for audio output plugin and play the whole clip
once)
> 
> Step 4: Get the audio into Vorbis
> 
> oggenc -q -1 --downmix xine-out.wav
> 
> Step 5: Merge the results to the finished video
> 
> oggzmerge outfile.mpg.ogg xine-out.ogg -o outfile.ogg
> 
> 
> Hope this is helpful to someone... Improvements welcome.
> 
> Carlo
Hi,

Thank you for your howto, here is mine.
I use mplayer and encoder_example to do the job.

mencoder -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts
acodec=mp3:abitrate=128:vqscale=2 -vf crop,scale MyVideo.mov -ofps 25

rm -f stream*

mkfifo -m 0600 stream.yuv stream.wav

mplayer test.avi -channels 1 -af resample=22050:1:1,channels=1,volnorm
-ao pcm:file=stream.wav -vo null -vc null -quiet&>mplayer-audio.log &

mplayer test.avi -vo yuv4mpeg -ao null -sws 7 -nosound -quiet -vf
crop,scale,pp=v1/h1/dr,smartblur=5:0.2:-30,smartblur=5:0.1:30,decimate=2:1000:1600:.001
-ssf cgb=1 &>mplayer-video.log &

encoder_example -a -1 -v 5 -o MyVideo.Theora.ogg stream.wav stream.yuv


It always worked in my cases.


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