tablet-encode(1)
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).