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shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2674 Location: Japan

New test release: ffconvert-1.2.9.pet (2012-05-26)
http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/

New features:
1. Additional audio track. You can combine the 1st file for video and the 2nd for audio.
2. Screen capture. Note this feature is available on the Lupu and Slacko. Wary/Racy cannot.

Video using the screen capture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8hcLmfxv8Y

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5087 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Hi shinobar; I didn`t read the whole forum thread as it`s quite long.

Does ffconvert do ffmpeg x264 with the quality setting and single pass?
This is the best all around method, fast one pass and easy to set quality.
I`ve been using Handbrake, but it`s far more complex than is needed.

I tried the old ffconvert and it didn`t work, but I hope the new one does.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2674 Location: Japan

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5087 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

It was maybe a year ago I tried ffconvert, not really that important.

Now I use Puppy-528-005 Lucid with Handbrake.
But Handbrake is more complex than is needed.
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Just need audio stream selection, video and audio output format, and a few other options.
Perhaps this is in some of the preset files that ffconvert can use?
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Q: Does ffconvert do x264 "quality based" encoding?

OR, are you planning on adding that to it?

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2674 Location: Japan

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5087 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Thanks shinobar;

I`ll get those packages and try it out.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2674 Location: Japan

Crrent: ffconvert-1.3.pet (2012-06-17)
http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/
You need not upgrade if you are content with the v.1.2.9.

# v1.2.9 - 26 May 2012: x11grab, mkplaylist, notebook, preset group
# v1.3 - 17 Jun 2012: upport avconv, fix unsupported codec error message, gtkdialog to avoid yaf-splash incompatibility, vcd for the default

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2674 Location: Japan

Try '-isync' as the advanced options if you encounter no sync with the video and audio when grabing X by the ffconvert 2.9.1 and later.
(Thanks to smokey01)

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2674 Location: Japan

FFConvert-1.3 supports screen capture. But you need to upgrade ffmpeg for Wary/Racy-5.3 or Puppy-4.x.
For Wary/Racy-5.3, install FFmpeg-0.8.12 to enable screen capture.
For Puppy-4.x, install ffmpeg-0.7.6.

You need not upgrade ffmpeg for slacko, dpup and most of Pupplet-5.x.
For the lucid puppy, the Pmusic Upgrade 005 is recommended.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2674 Location: Japan

TIPS:
ffconvert-1.3 has additional options in /usr/bin/ffconvert at line 80:
CAPTURE_SOUND="hw:0,0"

It specifies the sound device associates the screen capture.
"hw:0,0" means card 0, device 0.

You can edit the value by a text editor.
To see the available hardware, type the command 'arecord -l':

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5384 Location: Ontario

"hw:0,1" is the line-in port for my desktop computer when recording audio.

Audacity's preferences is a good way to understand what
your audio ports are named by system

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antiloquax · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 405

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2768 Location: UK

Hi shinobar,

I'm using the latest FFconvert on Akita...