NAME
tablet-encode - video converter for Nokia Internet Tablets
SYNOPSIS
tablet-encode [options] input destination
tablet-encode [options] input [input2...] directory
tablet-encode [options] --list input [input2...]
OPTIONS
-g, --gui open a graphical interface to tablet-encode
-q, --quiet
be vewwy vewwy quiet
-p, --preset=PRESET
preset to use. Use --preset=list to see them all
--hq high quality encoding (takes longer).
-s, --sample=SECS
produce a SECS second sample encoding. Default: 30
-i, --index
generate avi file index
-i, --index
include material from ‘FILE’
-7, --770
use a different FOURCC for better 770 compatibility
-o, --original-aspect
disable cropping image to better fit screen
-c, --copy-audio
copy the existing audio track
-2, --two-pass
encode in two passes for better quality
-m, --mencoder=ARGn
pass ARGn to mencoder (can occur multiple times)
-t, --subtitle=FILE
embed subtitles in the converted video, from the specified file,
or <file>.srt
-e, --episodes
when auto-detecting DVD track, rip all episodes
-l, --list
specify that the arguments are a list of files to encode, output
file is input suffixed with preset
-h, --help
print this help, then exit
DESCRIPTION
There are a number of different ways of using tablet-encode, but the
simplest is to give one existing movie (or URL) and the filename of the
target:
tablet-encode input.avi output.avi
tablet-encode http://www.example.com/somefilm.mov output.avi
tablet-encode dvd://1 output.avi
The last of these has shown MPlayer’s support for DVDs. tablet-encode
will also auto-detect directories containing VIDEO_TS folders as DVDs,
and if the title on the DVD is unspecified, the longest will be used:
tablet-encode dvd: output.avi
tablet-encode /media/dvd/ output.avi
For TV series’ DVDs, the ’--episodes’ option can be used. This will rip
all episodes on the DVD within 10% of the middle-longest track (i.e.
the median):
tablet-encode --episodes dvd: /media/nokia-external/Video/
A number of presets are available. If none is specified, it defaults to
"average". A full list of the presets can be seen by passing ‘list’ to
the --preset option:
tablet-encode --preset list
If the target of the encoding is a directory, multiple input files can
be specified:
tablet-encode file1.avi file2.mov file3.wmv output/
There are many more options, a full listing is provided in the online
help:
tablet-encode --help
Running tablet-encode with no parameters will start a GUI version, if
possible. A GUI progress bar can be shown when specifying arguments
with the ‘--gui’ option. This requires the Gtk2-Perl bindings to be
installed.
CONFIGURING
The file ‘.tablet-encode.conf’ will be read from your home directory at
start up. In this file you can define your own presets, change the
default preset used if none is specified and a few other things.
To define your own preset, say "dvd", create ~/.tablet-encode.conf in
your favourite editor and add the content:
$PRESET{dvd} = { abitrate => 256, vbitrate => 800, width => 400 };
This will define a preset called ’dvd’ with an audio bitrate of
256kbps, a video bitrate of 800kbps and a maximum width of 400 pixels.
The height is auto-calculated based on the tablet’s screen and the size
of the input video.
To use the ’dvd’ preset instead of ’average’ when no preset is
specified, add the following line to ~/.tablet-encode.conf:
$defaultPreset = ’dvd’;
Note that this is a mini-Perl script, so blank lines and lines starting
‘#’ will be ignored. All statements MUST end in a semi-colon, ‘;’.
For Nokia 770 users, you may wish to always use 770-compatibility mode.
To achieve this, in ~/.tablet-encode.conf put:
$options{770} = 1;
AUTHOR
tablet-encode was written by Andrew Flegg <andrew@bleb.org>.
This manual page was written by Alessio Treglia
<quadrispro@ubuntu.com>, for the Ubuntu project (and may be used by
others).
December 15, 2009