32 & 64-bit encoders for Xvid Ogg OGM

[Turd_Ferguson]

i am thinking of building a new system that will use an AMD64, and probably will be dual booting WinXP64 and a 64-bit version of Linux. i am just starting to get aquainted with 32-bit linux now, so i don't know much about it. i do know that i want to use as much open source software as possible, and minumize the M$ stuff.

i am currently using Xvid and Ogg codecs to make OGM files under WinXP, but i want to start doing this under Linux. i would like to know if there are any encoding programs out there to do this.

second, are there any encoding programs coming out that will take advantage of a 64-bit processor and OS?

thanx

[thoralf]

Hi,

afaik, there are no pre-compiled 64bit-binaries out there ... The good news are that the sourcecode of all apps you need is freely available (hence open source :) ), so grab the sources and make your own builds - you'll need libogg, xvid and mencoder at least.
A word of warning, though: prepare yourself for a deep dive into the depths of shell scripts and command lines ...

with kind regards,
thoralf.

[Mosu]

Originally posted by Turd_Ferguson
i am currently using Xvid and Ogg codecs to make OGM files under WinXP, but i want to start doing this under Linux. i would like to know if there are any encoding programs out there to do this.

Sure. mencoder + transcode can both compress with either XviD or libavcodec's superb MPEG4 codec. You can use oggenc for encoding audio tracks to Ogg/Vorbis and my ogmtools for creating OGM files (if you really must, there are better alternatives than OGM available ;)). The ogmtools are part of my Linux distros and available in source from http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/

[Joe Fenton]

If you're still looking, you'll find transcode, xvid, and ogg all compiled as 64 bit RPMs in the freshrpms repository.

http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/2/x86_64/RPMS.frshrpms

I'm sure they're available for other distros as well. Most of the 64 bit distros have all those things compiled into 64 bit by now.

Add the freshrpms repository to your yum.conf and just use yum to install them and any dependencies.