[Kde-announce-apps] xvidenc 5.1

[G N.]

Name: xvidenc
Version: 5.1
Type: Video Application
Depend: 
License: GPL
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=51873

Description:
 A shell script which encodes video files or DVDs
to the Xvid 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 ALL options of the Xvid
library version 1.1.x 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....

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

Changelog:
 *** xvidenc 5.1 ***

- Improvements to the resolution detection code
- Fixed a small bug where script leaves resolution
temp file after getting the values

*** xvidenc 5.0 ***

- Added support for auto detecting original source
resolution
- Added support for bypassing scaling if user
decides to use original resolution
- 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

*** xvidenc 4.9 ***

- 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
- Temporary files go to /tmp now instead of user's
home directory
- Updated the man page
- Updated the README.xvidenc file

*** xvidenc 4.8 ***

- 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

*** xvidenc 4.7 ***

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