Hari's Corner

28 Apr 2008

BiaMovE - advanced mencoder GUI

Filed under: My software by Hari
Posted at 12:56:40 IST (last updated: 26 Feb 2009 @ 10:53:48 IST)

Google Code project page

BiaMovE (pronounced by-a-movie) is an advanced mencoder GUI I've written in Python and Tkinter. Features include:

Configuration for popularly used audio and video codecs (e.g. LAVC, x364, xvid, mp3lame, twolame etc.)
Save/load profiles. You can create a specific profile for encoding different types of videos.
A dialog box for common video filters - crop, scale, expand etc.
Other advanced mencoder options not found in other video encoding GUIs.

What BiaMovE doesn't do:

Detect mencoder/codecs installed on your system. You need mencoder installed with specific codecs you need for it to work.
Advanced error checking. Be aware that Mencoder is a complex video encoding software and supports hundreds of options. Using certain combination of options/codecs might produce invalid, incompatible video formats. BiaMovE just passes your choices to the Mencoder command line and doesn't do much more than that.

Downloads

BiaMovE-0.1.tar.gz (Download for Linux/*Nix)

BiaMovE-0.1.win32.exe.zip (Downlod for Windows)

biadvdlister-1.0.tar.gz Optional program to list contents of a DVD used by BiaMovE's DVD dialog. Works only Linux/*Nix as it requires libdvdread.

Requirements

To install and use BiaMovE you need to install:

Python and Python TK extensions - download from http://www.python.org (Linux users: your distribution might already package python so check your distribution package manager).
Mencoder/Mplayer - download from http://www.mplayerhq.hu
[Optional] For the biadvdlister program to work (only in Linux) - libdvdread libraries and headers (for compiling). Download from http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/development.shtml. libdvdread is usually packaged in many distributions.

Installation

Under Linux

To install BiaMovE run the following command as root from the source directory after extracting the BiaMovE tar.gz file:

python setup.py install

To install the biadvdlister program extract the source tar.gz file and run the following from the source directory:

./configure make make install (as root)

Under Windows

First install Python and Mplayer/Mencoder, then run the executable installer.

License

Licensed under the GNU/GPL v3. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

If you have any doubts feel free to ask for clarifications! Please download and test this program and give me feedback. If anybody wants to package BiaMovE for their distribution please do so. smile

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What is the first thing it doesn't do?

Comment by RT Cunningham (visitor) on 29 Apr 2008 @ 08:05:27 IST #
Corrected, RT. I don't know how a bit got chopped off from the text.

Comment by hari (blog owner) on 29 Apr 2008 @ 09:27:37 IST #
I dunno. I saw tect and I thought "what the hell is he trying to say?" ;D

Comment by RT Cunningham (visitor) on 29 Apr 2008 @ 09:33:31 IST #
Excellent work! If nothing else, I'll download your stuff to take a look at how you make and save profiles. I am working on something open source myself (and yes, in Python and TkInter)

Comment by Sudipta Chatterjee (visitor) on 1 May 2008 @ 08:47:24 IST #
Sudipta, to save/load profiles, I use the ConfigParser module built-in to standard Python to create/read configuration files (format like .ini files).

Comment by hari (blog owner) on 1 May 2008 @ 10:16:43 IST #
hi
I think your BiaMove is GREAT,and want to translet it to chinese.
And I want to package it into a DEB package,with a menu shortcut and some preset profile.
Can you give me a email or homepage about this Program?
can I host my traslation and package in google code?
My email is me[at]mrxu.net.
Sorry for my poor english.

Comment by jarlyyn (visitor) on 4 Aug 2008 @ 18:59:45 IST #
You can package it with Debian and translate it to any language you want.
It's licensed under the GPL. And the home page is this same page. I don't have a separate home page for it.

Comment by hari (blog owner) on 4 Aug 2008 @ 19:05:44 IST #
Hey can anybody tell me where I can find a gui that will do BATCH encoding of Xvid with vbr lame audio?

Comment by dave (visitor) on 23 Aug 2008 @ 16:25:08 IST #
Dave, you need to do a google search. I've not found such a GUI tool myself and I don't need one either. If I have a need to do batch encoding, I'll probably create one. ;D
I'm sure there are some Windows video editing software tools that can do batch encoding. I just haven't time to look for them.

Comment by hari (blog owner) on 23 Aug 2008 @ 16:56:19 IST #
:no: I have downloaded mplayer and mencoder (also gmplayer, mpui and vlc) and then when I went to install biamove, I first installed Python.
This is on Win Vista.
When I installed biamove, it put it somewhere in the Python25 folder. But I cannot seem to find the executable to start the gui?

Comment by Ricgal (visitor) on 26 Aug 2008 @ 09:30:41 IST #
Hi Ricgal, right now you need to run cmd.exe from the "Run" command:
Then within the command line use the command:
python biamove
I'll have to release an executable version of this program for Windows - currently it's released as a Python module so there's no direct EXE file to run.

Comment by hari (blog owner) on 13 Sep 2008 @ 10:20:52 IST #