Need some advice

[fatron]

I'm attempting to put together a system that will automate some video capture and encoding. My original plan was to capture all audio and video as wmv files, then transfer them across the network to a machine running sorenson squeeze. Squeeze is running a watch folder and transcoding the wmv files to rm and mp4 for ipod.

Everything works, but my problem is that sorenson is slooooooowwwwww. It's taking about 7 hours to transcode 1 hour of video into the 2 files.

I can use the command line version of helix producer to transcode the wmv into rm and get that conversion done in just about real time. Does anyone know of a reasonable fast command line program I can use to encode the mp4 videos for ipod?

[Mikele]

mencoder maybe? It's one of the fastest encoders and it supports all kind of formats, including iPod's.

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[chipzoller]

fatron, is your goal to take one of your converted videos (something already in an MP4 container, so MPEG-4 I assume) and encode it for iPod playback? If so, there are numerous encoding GUIs available that will do this (as you no doubt already know). I can recommend megui and x264 to create an H.264-in-MP4 file.