Media Converter, From DVD to Xvid, Video for phones and MP4 players, Real Media for Streaming

How to compress your video on your harddisk;
How to get your video to fit into your PDA, iPod;
How to get Real Media to stream on TV


Now after your shrink all this DVDs to harddisk you will find that your harddisk is getting filled up rather fast. 10 DVDs of 4GB each = 40GB, a korea drama - 32 disks = 128GB. Unless you buy one of the terabytes one, you will soon be running out of space.



The best way is to compress this video from Mpeg-2 (DVD) to Mpeg-4 without too much video lost. Since my streamium can handle Xvid (a Mpeg-4 standard) natively, I manage to free up lots of space.



After some searching.. actually ffmeg/memcoder can do the trick but the user interface was not there, beside I got to type a long command each time.


So finally, I found a free GUI

Super http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html



It's easy enough. The codec support is huge, it also allow you to select the DVD default sound track etc.

Video format: 3gp/3g2(Nokia,Siemens,Sony,Ericsson) asf, avi (DivX,H263,H263+,H264,XviD,MPEG4,MSmpeg4 etc..), dat, fli, flc, flv (used in Flash), mkv, mpg (Mpeg I,Mpeg II), mov(H263,H263+,H264,MPEG4 etc..), mp4(H263,H263+,H264,MPEG4), ogg, qt, rm, ram, rmvb, str (Play Station), swf (Flash), ts (HDTV), viv, vob, wmv

- Audio format: aac, ac3, amr, mmf, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, ogg, ra, wav, wma


Wow ! that almost all the stuff you can find today :)

Now choose
1.Output container - avi
2. Video codec - XviD ; Maintain input's scale & aspect
3. Audio codec - Mp3 ; Stereo, 128kbps, DVD language default

Add the file and start converting...


Well beside that I can also use it to convert some of the Video to be played on my PDA mobile phone - 3GPP. So I can use the same software to do 2 things....

Now wait... earlier on I had videos which unfortunately were in Real (.rmvb) before discovering TVersity, I got someone to write a software (GUI) base on Java for "mencoder"

All it does is this

C:\Program Files\mplayer\codecs\mencoder.exe" "file.rmvb" -o c:\file.avi -vf kerndeint,scale=640:352 -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvid encopts pass=1:bitrate=4000:vhq=1:max_bframes=0

So I can replace this with Super!
VOLA !!