Transcoding a video to XviD format with GStreamer

[Tim Müller]

On Mon, 2015-09-07 at 17:34 +0200, liberforce at freeside.fr wrote:

Hi,

> Hum, not getting much attention, sadly.
> 
> Le 2015-09-03 15:03, liberforce at freeside.fr a écrit :
> > The question is: How to encode a video into XviD  with GStreamer ? Wich 
> > plugin
> > or pipeline should I use to have the `file` command identifying the 
> > produced
> > files the same way as files produces with `mencoder`?
> 
> The fact is for example this documentation page looks broken, as it 
> still mentions
> the xvidenc:
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-avimux.html

Thanks, that should probably be fixed.

> I'd just like to know hot to port this 0.10 command line to 1.0, as 
> xvidenc element doesn't exist anymore.

I think I have a partial port of it somewhere, I'll try to dig it up
once the 1.6 release is out.

> gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc num-buffers=250 \
> ! 
> 'video/x-raw,format=(string)I420,width=320,height=240,framerate=(fraction)25/1' 
> \
> ! xvidenc ! queue ! mux. \
> audiotestsrc num-buffers=440 ! audioconvert ! 
> 'audio/x-raw,rate=44100,channels=2' \
> ! lame ! queue ! mux. \
> avimux name=mux ! filesink location=test.avi
> 
> Any ideas someone ?

You could use the avenc_mpeg4 element instead.

lame is now called lamemp3enc.

Cheers
 -Tim

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