[Kde-announce-apps] h264enc 4.8

[G N.]

Name: h264enc
Version: 4.8
Type: Video Application
Depend: 
License: GPL
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=51872

Description:
 A shell script which encodes video files or DVDs
to the H.264 format using 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 virtually all options of the
libx264 library and has further support for
1-pass, 2-pass, 3-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....

Main download site of the script is at SourceForge
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/h264enc

Changelog:
 *** h264enc 4.8 ***

- Fixed a bug in the check_video_filters_func
function
- Fixed a small bug where script leaves the
resolution temp file after getting the values
- Added support for predefined/custom quantization
matrices
- Added support for bypassing audio encoding
(useful for muxing video into other containers
and/or with other audio file)
- Improvements to the resolution detection code

*** h264enc 4.7 ***

- Added support for auto resolution detection
- Added support to bypass scaling if user decides
to use original source resolution
- Further improvements to the DVD title scanning
and cropping code
- Improvements in the audio codec checking code
(placed it into a function)
- Small improvements to the high-quality denoise
filter code
- Small improvements to the default encoding
values of the script
- Updated the man page

*** h264enc 4.6 ***

- Added support for displaying all available DVD
audio channels
- Added support for chapter scanning for the
chosen DVD title
- More improvements to the DVD subtitle, title
scanning and cropping detection
- Small improvements to the in-loop deblocking
filter code
- Temporary files go to /tmp now instead of user's
home directory
- Updated the man page
- Updated the README.h264enc file

*** h264enc 4.5 ***

- Improved the DVD title scanning code (if DVD is
locked, 'lsdvd' will fail to read it so mplayer
must unlock the DVD before running 'lsdvd')
- Improved the subtitle code
- Added support for auto-detecting DVD cropping
values

*** h264enc 4.4 ***

- Added support for auto-selecting the longest DVD
title using 'lsdvd'
- Added support for displaying all available
subtitles on the DVD disc
- Updated the README.h264enc file
- Updated the man page