Archos Gmini 402

[kblood]

Hello everyone,

I just got an Archos Gmini 402, and it looks beautiful.

I was looking around for some info on how to encode movies for this using Linux, and found this bash script, and I though I could share it: (I haven't tested it yet!)
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~nvanhell/divx2gmini

#!/bin/bash
# usage: divx2gmini <file>
#
# Author: Nick Van Helleputte
# It works for me, no guarantee that it will work for you :)

VERSION=0.3

#define colors
bold=`tput bold;tput setaf 4`
offbold=`tput sgr0`
red=`tput setaf 1`
green=`tput setaf 2`
yellow=`tput setaf 3`
blue=`tput setaf 4`
purlple=`tput setaf 5`
cyan=`tput setaf 6`
white=`tput bold;tput setaf 7`

if ! [ -e "$1" ]; then
cat <<EOF
${green}divx2gmini-$VERSION${offbold} by Nick Van Helleputte.
A bash script to re-encode video to a format appropriate for the
Archos Gmini 400. It encodes to Xvid video and CBR mp3 audio.

${bold}Overview:${offbold}
- The script will ask to generate a 5 min. test sample you can
quickly copy to your Gmini to see if any reencoding is needed.
- The script will give you the option to only reencode audio.
(since most of the time only the audio needs to be reencoded)
- If video will also be reencoded, the script will ask to use
2-pass encoding or not.
- If you want subtitles to be rendered in the final result, just
place the subtitle file in the same directory as the video and
give it the same name.
(e.g. ${white}~jack/movies/video1.avi${offbold} and ${white}~jack/movies/video1.srt${offbold})

${bold}Requirements:${offbold}
- transcode
- mplayer & mencoder
- xvid and lame libraries

${bold}usage:${offbold}
${white}dixv2gmini <videofile>${offbold}
EOF
exit
fi

#define some vars
DIR=`pwd`
TEMPFOLDER=/tmp/divx2gmini-$RANDOM
FILE=$1
if [ "$1" == "`basename \"$1\"`" ]; then
FILE="$DIR/$1"
fi
OUTPUT="${FILE%.avi}_gmini.avi"
CLIP="${FILE%.avi}_clip.avi"
mkdir $TEMPFOLDER
cd $TEMPFOLDER

#get info from source
mplayer -frames 0 -identify "$FILE" > $TEMPFOLDER/info 2>/dev/null

# Test sample
echo "${bold}Generate 5min. test sample?${offbold} (output in ${green}$CLIP)${offbold} (y/n)"
read TEST
if [ $TEST = "y" ]; then
#zoek de lengte van de input
ID_LENGTH=`grep LENGTH $TEMPFOLDER/info`
LENGTH=${ID_LENGTH#ID_LENGTH=}

#bereken start en einde van de clip
let START=$LENGTH/$LENGTH
let STOP=$START+300

mencoder -o "$CLIP" -oac copy -ovc copy -ss $START -endpos $STOP "$FILE"
echo "${red}Done! 5 min. test sample can by found in ${green}$CLIP.${offbold}"
#clean up and exit
rm $TEMPFOLDER/*
rmdir $TEMPFOLDER
cd $DIR
exit
fi

# Audio
echo "${bold}Re-encode only audio?${offbold} (output in ${green}$OUTPUT)${offbold} (y/n)"
read AUDIO

#bepaal audio source bitrate?
ABITRATE=`grep AUDIO_BITRATE $TEMPFOLDER/info`
ABITRATE=${ABITRATE#ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=}
let ABITRATE=$ABITRATE/1000

#bepaal audio target bitrate
echo "${bold}Audio bitrate in kbps?${offbold} (source = ${green}$ABITRATE${offbold})"
read ABITRATE

AUDIORATE=$ABITRATE,0,5,0

#encode only audio
if [ $AUDIO = "y" ]; then
transcode -i "$FILE" -N 0x55 -P 1 -b $AUDIORATE -o "$OUTPUT"
echo "${red}Done! Audio encoded succesfully.${offbold}"

#clean up and exit
rm $TEMPFOLDER/*
rmdir $TEMPFOLDER
cd $DIR
exit
fi

# Video
echo "${bold}Use 2-pass video encoding?${offbold} (output in ${green}$OUTPUT)${offbold} (y/n)"
read TWOPASS
TWOPASSFLAG=""

#bepaal video source bitrate?
VBITRATE=`grep VIDEO_BITRATE $TEMPFOLDER/info`
VBITRATE=${VBITRATE#ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=}
let VBITRATE=$VBITRATE/1000

#bepaal video target bitrate
echo "${bold}Video bitrate in kbps?${offbold} (source = ${green}$VBITRATE${offbold})"
read MAXRATE

#encode video
if [ $TWOPASS = "y" ]; then
# first pass encoding
# no audio processing
# no video output
transcode -i "$FILE" -V -x mplayer -y xvid4,null \
-R1 -o /dev/null

#set twopassflag
TWOPASSFLAG="-R2"
fi

#encode video
# -i input
# -V use YV12/I420 as internal video codec
# -x mplayer use mplayer to render video/audio
# -y xvid encode to xvid
# -N 0x55 encode audio to CBR mp3
# -b audio bitrate
# -o output
# -w video bitrate
transcode -i "$FILE" -V -x mplayer -y xvid4 \
$TWOPASSFLAG -N 0x55 -b $AUDIORATE -o "$OUTPUT" -w $MAXRATE

echo "${red}Done! Audio and video encoded succesfully.${offbold}"

# clean up and exit
rm $TEMPFOLDER/*
rmdir $TEMPFOLDER
cd $DIR

exit


I am not the author! And I couldn't find any more info than this...