Batch Reencoding for DVD Files on Harddisk

[Schacko]

Hiya!

I hope this is the right forum for my question - if not, someone move the thread please :)

Actually I'm working at a company were we control canals with a specialized camera and burning the vids on DVD directly. After that I get the DVD's into the office I save them on our harddisk. You can imagine this stuff needs space like mad. So I need a program for a batch re-encoding into SVCD or something similar, best without adding EVERY video into a singe project first.

The source would be:
Video Attributes:
Video compression mode: MPEG-2
TV system: 625/50 (PAL)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Display Mode: Only Letterbox
Source picture resolution: 720x576 (625/50)
Frame Rate: 25.00
Source picture letterboxed: Not letterboxed
Bitrate: 8.57Mbps

Audio Attributes:
Audio Coding mode: Dolby Digital
Sampling Rate: 48kHz
Audio application mode: Surround
Number of Audio channels: 2
Bitrate: 256 Kbps
Number of Audio streams: 1

Some of them have only one vid inside, some more.

Saved on the harddrive like:
D:\Vids\Frau Bla, Sesamstraße 1, 01.02.2007\VIDEO_RM
...\VIDEO_TS

We don't need Audio and the Vid. quality can be lower, guess even VCD would be enough - just for us to got something archived. :3

Any ideas? Thanks for any help and sorry for my BAD english :thanks:
(And yes, I already used the search and read the guides :D)

[Pookie]

That must be some exciting video :D

ffmpeg.exe can do it -

ffmpeg -i input.mpg -target pal-vcd -an -y output.mpg


http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/ffmpeg/

Google around for pthreadGC2.dll if ffmpeg asks for it.

Batch processing the entire folders would be pretty easy, but I don't have enough information to help you. Need to see an entire directory structure, and names of the original mpeg files.

[Schacko]

thanks :)

ill post a screenshot later, got a bit too much work here at my office :)