the mpeg frontend


encode2mpeg is a front end to MPlayer/MEncoder and mjpegtools. It is able to convert any kind of video that mplayer can play in a format suitable for VCD/SVCD/DVD, plus it can create DivX avi.
The program has the following capabilities:

Documentation

The README is the first document to read.
The online help lists all the options, the long online help describes all the options.
The rest of the documentation is in these web pages. Read them carefully.

Usage

encode2mpeg has different working mode. Click on the links below to see how to choose and select the appropriate mode.
Other features

Options Check
encode2mpeg will detect an incorrect option on the command line. If you are using a valid MPlayer option and encode2mpeg does not recognize it, you can disable options checking by adding '-toolopts mplayer'. Everything after '-toolopts' is assumed to be a valid option/argument and passed to the specified tool.
Disk Space
Temporary disk space usage is about 2 times the size of the final stream. When using the option -addsub, temporary disk space usage is 2 times the size of the final stream plus the size of the input stream. Be sure to have enough free space on your disk. encode2mpeg does not check for sufficient free disk space.

Download

The last version is 0.4.2, download it here.

What's new

Since version 0.4.0 encode2mpeg has been developed with MPlayer 1.0pre6. If you are still using MPlayer 1.0pre5 you should use version 0.3.5.

0.4.2
Bugfix relase
0.4.1
Encoding different source video in one disk
Cache support (part 3/3)
Bugfixes
0.4.0
Easy creation of standard VCD/SVCD
Cache support (part 2/3)
Copy of audio streams of different type to SVCD/DVD
dts and mp1 audio
3 pass encoding
Turbo mode for 2/3 pass encoding in DivX Mode and Mpeg Mode
0.3.5
DVD iso image creation
Cache support (part 1/3)
In Mpeg Mode -usesbr is now accurate
0.3.4
Mpeg Mode libavcodec option's change
Bugfixes
Full interlace support
0.3.3
More resolutions for SVCD/DVD
Detection of wrong encode2mpeg/MPlayer/MEncoder options
0.3.2
Subtitles for SVCD/DVD
Automatic conversion of the aspect ratio during the creation of VCD/SVCD/DVD
0.3.1
It is possible to add chapters to VCD/SVCD/DVD
Temporary disk space usage is now only 2 times the size of the final stream
0.3.0
Mpeg Mode
Partial interlace support
SMP support
html documentation

See the Changelog for a more detailed list.

Contact

you can contact the author writing to the mplayer-user mailing list or, directly, sending an e-mail to both the addresses: encode2mpeg at users.sourceforge.net , encode2mpeg at katamail.com .