xvidenc enables encoding DVDs or video files to the XviD format.

Advanced shell script for encoding DVDs or video files to the XviD format using the encoding utility MEncoder from MPlayer. Supports all the useful options an end-user would need to make a successful encode. The script is a CLI front end to MEncoder.

The script is targeted primarily at power users who like to tweak their settings in order to achieve best possible quality

The script supports ALL options of the XviD library version 1.1.2 and has further support for 1-pass, 2-pass and fixed-quant encoding modes, 11 different software scalers, DVD cropping, interlaced encoding, deinterlacing of video content, setting output frame rate value, various audio codecs (MP2, MP3, AC3, AAC, PCM, ADPCM), file splitting, and more.

Requirements:

· MPlayer >= 1.0rc1
· xvid >= 1.1.0
· LAME

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fallback to undefined audio language in the AUDLANG[$i] variables if we detect unknown language from MPlayer's output
· Added support for bitrate-based ABR Vorbis encoding in addition to quality-based VBR. ABR mode in Vorbis resembles quality-based VBR except the encoder averages a given nominal bitrate
· Updated the Vorbis part of the video bitrate calculation code
· Added new function ratio_and_pixels_func() which calculates and displays the Storage Aspect Ratio (SAR), Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) and total pixels from resolution
· Bugfix for track 1 in the internal audio encoding code. If using aacplusenc to encode audio, the case statement had a wrong selection value (aac instead of aac+) resulting in displaying a failed message and forcing an exit even though the encoding may have succeeded
· Simplifications to the internal audio encoding code which reduce code duplication