FFMPEG compatibility with MeGUI

[Inventive Software]

What are the chances of getting FFMPEG to work with MeGUI? FFMPEG will compile alright on Windows and I can get it to work in the commandline somewhat. So it would kinda make sense to integrate it into a GUI. MeGUI is obviously the best for x264 and Snow. What do you think?

[Doom9]

ffmpeg is basically just another frontend (the official one though) for libavcodec, as is mencoder.. so why would you have one over the other?

On the technical side, all you'd need is another method in VideoEncoder.cs that wraps around ffmpeg.exe, and a method to write the appropriate ffmpeg commandline in CommandlineGenerator.cs. But once again, I don't really see the reason of ffmpeg support over mencoder. What does ffmpeg bring to the plate that mencoder does not?

[movax]

IMO, mencoder offers most, if not all the encoding options you'd ever need for your particular codec choice. Just read the man page for it, in particular in the -lavc and -lavcopts sections. I wrote a GUI for the XviD section of mencoder a while back, and it only lacks Saving/Loading settings support. Besides, with the current GUIs, one more really isn't needed, when I think about it further. :)

[Inventive Software]

OK, after reading that I think that mencoder would be the better bet. I have heard it mentioned many times on the forums, but I haven't fully discovered it yet.

I mentioned FFMPEG because it has some diverse codecs within libavcodec, which I suppose mencoder supports as well.

OK, thanks for that!

[movax]

mencoder needs libavcodec I think. Not quite sure.