Encoding video for the Pandora on the Pandora

[Nardella]

Is there any program to convert or encode video on the Pandora?

 

[Nintendo]

No, not that I know of, but please don't quote me on that. Anyway, here's a quote from the one and only BP.

As for video editing, no, unfortunately there's nothing for that. I don't think it's been brought up that much, actually.

 

[Blue Protoman]

Maybe someone could have a stab at porting WinFF? http://winff.org/html_new/


It's available for Linux.

 

[Cloudef]

ffmpeg, not PND packaged however. Install distro to your SD unless angstrom repos have it.

 

[Blue Protoman]

But GUIs are cooler.

 

[cinaed666]

what about avidemux? I don't know if it's ported though.

 

[gadgetoid]

What format does the Flip HD record to? From what I can tell, it's H.264/AAC in an Mp4 container.


I guess they're naturally just slightly too high-resolution for the Pandora to handle them.


Transcoding would be your best bet, if it can get close enough to realtime. Converting just to view would be quite painful- unless you don't mind the wait.


A port of Handbrake would be nice But I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's not as easy as ./configure && make

 

[Caine]

VLC

 

[Gune]

In my oppinion ffmpeg or mencoder are the 2 best CLI softwares for video encoding. There are several GUI frontends to download for these, both in GTK and QT.


Stefan Larsson.

 

[mcobit]

I built ffmpeg for pandora, but didn't really test it. If it is of any use, I can upload it.

 

[Blue Protoman]

Sure. Is the WinFF (or any other) GUI an option as well?

 

[gotwake424]

Do you think with the addition of the dsp, if that ever gets implemented . That we will be able to play higher rez videos a little smoother?

 

[Blue Protoman]

Yes, if the media players themselves are reworked to use the DSP.

 

[mcobit]

Winff is written in pascal, no experience with that, sorry.

 

[Blue Protoman]

Argh, oh well. I know we have at least one person around here who knows it.

 

[mcobit]

I know a simple javagui for it, will see if it runs on Pandora...

 

[mcobit]

Well, the javagui wasn't working, so I compiled a small qt4 gui for it.


http://www.udosworld.de/24-small-ffmpeg-gui.htm

Get it here: http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=ffmpeg-small-ffmpeg-gui-269


I was successfully able to convert a flv file to mp4.


If anybody can port a better gui, feel free to take the ffmpeg stuff from this pnd.

 

[Blue Protoman]

Thanks, mcobit!

 

[Nintendo]

mcobit does it again!

 

[DoubleDash]

^MCOBIT


Thanks, that looks neat. I will give it a try.


I usually convert via windoze usuing AnyDVD > Super , and then copy files to SD card. This takes some time for a full DVD, I don't like to skimp too much on the quality!


I can't see doing any kind of serious encoding on the Pandora as an option though, it must be painfully slow, except for small files.