POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : AVI woes : Re: AVI woes Server Time
7 Sep 2024 11:27:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: AVI woes  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 22 May 2008 16:24:47
Message: <4835d68e@news.povray.org>
stbenge wrote:
>>   Another free alternative, which is the de-facto encoder in linux,
>> is mencoder (its Windows port, to be more precise). Of course it's a
>> powerful "hacker tool" and thus not designed for maximum user
>> friendliness, so you might find it quite daunting at first. OTOH once
>> you learn to use it, it can be quite handy.
>>   (OTOH, VirtualDub probably meets your needs, and it's a bit easier
>> to use, so you might want to check that first.)
> 
> By "hacker tool," do you mean it has some sort of command-line
> interface? I'm not too fond of having to type out several commands and
> paths every time I need to do something, unless I can save the text as a
> batch file command sequence. Or is it as difficult as Blender? If so,
> that will be no problem.

Of course, mencoder has no GUI :)

I personally use ffmpeg (which is command-line as well).


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