A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files.
right now ffmpeg2theora provides only a command line interface.
2008-11-30 new version released - 0.23- output frontend status to file, for frontends that can not read stdout
- --no-upscaling new option to only use widht/height, fps, samplerate if input is bigger
- new option: --max_size resize image, setting the larger value of width or height to given size
- fix bugs in crop and deinterlace
- link os x binary to mmx version of libtheora again
2008-10-10 new version released - 0.22
- enable v4l input again (-f video4linux or -f video4linux2)
- ability to set framerate for image sequences (--inputfps)
- fix several memory leaks
- if only width or height are given, the other is set to preserve aspect ratio
- -start / -end options now work with audio only input
- new option --novideo to disable input video
- remove autotools build system, only scons build is supported now.
2008-05-19 new version released - 0.21
- switch default extension to .ogv
- enable Ogg Skeleton by default
- add kate streams for subtitles (--subtitles, --subtitles-language,
subtitles-category, and --subtitles-encoding options) - start- and endtime now also works if an output framerate is set
- several bugfixes
2007-11-31 new version released - 0.20
- add postprocessing filters, denoise, deblock, dering
- new preset
- several bugfixes
2007-06-29 new version released - 0.19
- use libswscale api
- add frontend mode and a simple PythonCard Frontend
- support for output larger than 2GB on 32bit systems
- fix short option -k to output Ogg Skeleton
2007-03-08 new version released - 0.18
- new option -Z/--saturation
- document contrast / gamma / brightness / saturation options
- Mac OS X(Intel) now supports MMX accelerated libtheora
2006-11-13 new version released - 0.17
- new option -F/--framerate to set output framerate
- skeleton support(-k)
- vhook support(only available if libav* is linked as shared lib)
2006-02-11 new version released - 0.16
- support encoding from .ogg input file.
- don't change samplerate and audio channels unless we use command
line options -H or -c, or when the input channels are > 2 (limiting it to a maximum of 2). - don't change the image resolution, unless we use the presets or the
-x or -y options (old default was to encode to preset preview). - change the audio quality levels that were multiplied by 0.99, now
match the quality settings of oggenc, e.g. -a2 == -q2. - add --optimize option: use a full search for motion vectors and
reduce Theora bitrate by about 5%, but it is slower. - compile video4linux only under linux.
- update to help and man page.
2005-08-31 new version released - 0.15
- ti.dropframes_p = 0 so we do not loos half of the frames.
- also increase keyframe interval for better search support.
- this time the windows build als supports ac3 decoding again.
more info about earlier version in the ChangeLog