commandline mpeg encoding

[grv575]

What's a commandline for encoding an mpeg2 file to divx5.03 w/ 128kpbs mp3 for the audio?

Don't care which tools are used (dvd2avi, flask, vd, avs2avi, etc.).
Just as long as it's can be invoked from the commandline.

[khp]

The author of DVD2SVCD has made a command line version of DVD2AVI, which can be used for creating DVD2AVI project files that can then be used with an avisynth script. You can then use Virtualdub or avs2avi, both of which may be controlled via the commandline, to encode to divx.

The primary difficulty with this approach, is that it's quite difficult to configure the divx5 codec from the command line.

I have tried to explain how it might be done with divx5.02 in this thread

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12653

Unfortunatly the codec configuration format has changed with divx5.03.

As an alternative to the rather cumbersome approach I describe in the above mentioned thread, one might also configure the divx5 codec by altering the registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DivXNetworks\DivX4Windows

As for the audio, the easiest way to do that is to use BeSweet to convert from AC3 (or whatever the source forumat might be) to MP3, and then mux it into the avi file with nandub (or virtualdub, if you only use CBR encoding).

[grv575]

So there's no way to easily automatic just encoding to divx?

[khp]

Originally posted by grv575
So there's no way to easily automatic just encoding to divx?

Easy ? No, not unless you are willing to use a fixed predefined divx configuration.