ffxvid for Linux/BSD

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.6.2

* Add support for the noise video filter. Can be beneficial on (very) clean sources by applying some noise to avoid things like color/light banding in the encode

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.6.3

* Use MPlayer for crop detection instead of FFmpeg which seems to have issues with 4k/UHD content

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.6.4

* Go back to FFmpeg for crop detection

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.6.5

* Bugfix: missing if conditional in the crop code

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.6.6

* Add -max_muxing_queue_size switch to workaround possible issues when muxing Atmos/DTS-X audio

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.6.8

* Support TrueHD audio in the MP4 container

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.6.9

* Fixed a bug that prevents using TrueHD mono audio in the MP4 container

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.7.0

* Fixed a long standing bug where audio mapping values were incorrect for audio metadata resulting in incomplete or wrong values

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.7.1

* Fix a bug in the $vidtrack variable

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.7.2

* Remove "a" from the -ac audio option
* Fix possible negative index in the audio option

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ChangeLlog for ffxvid 1.7.3

* Replace the yadif deinterlacer with bwdif. It's faster and provides higher quality

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.7.4

* Support more deinterlacing filters

[Blue_MiSfit]

I've never used this app, but I'll say thank you for folks who do! I appreciate your efforts

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Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit

I've never used this app, but I'll say thank you for folks who do! I appreciate your efforts

Thanks. It's just a Bash shell script I write mainly for myself as I spend many hours working in the terminal on Linux so I need something CLI/terminal-based for encoding too...

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.7.5

* Fix crop detection for HDR content
* Set Lanczos as default scaler option

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.7.6

* Improved compatibility with the BSDs
* Set the setpts + atempo option as default for FPS conversion
* Set side/wide audio channels as default
* Support the newly added channels for TrueHD audio
* Bugfix in the video_noise_func() function
* Improved FPS detection code

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.7.7

* Don't exit but warn about MP4Box/Mplayer missing from the user's system

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.8.0

* Initial support for zimg (z lib) scalers

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.8.1

* Updated the audio copy code to detect Dolby Atmos and use the correct name metadata
* Renamed a few variables

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ChangeLog for ffxvid 1.8.2

* Reduced duplication in the final audio params code variable
* Use kHz instead of Hz for audio sample rate metadata
* Slightly increased default value of the noise filter
* Updated the AUTHORS file (email address)