Thought I would plop down a few of the Applications I try to support (not only “use). Each imgage “should” link directly to the part of that application’s site that tells a little about it. Have fun;

After posting the very simple avi to mp4 tutorial a few days/weeks ago; I noticed the quality was less than stellar. I mean; it was “okay” for watching the videos on the iPod Classic, Nano or even Touch, but they weren’t very good for watching them on TV (I’ve got a movie server and mistakenly conveted most movies to mp4 before finding this fix).

I headed around Google trying to find a better conversion (in Command Line) for making my movies more watchable.

This is what I found:

FFMPEG FAQ! To give you the lowdown if you don’t want to hit that entire link; basically it’s more complicated than I intended, but the results are much better. I also kind of do the conversion at the same time I’m combining the files. So here is their example for combining a couple files into one.

mkfifo intermediate1.mpg
mkfifo intermediate2.mpg
ffmpeg -i movie-part1.avi -sameq -y intermediate1.mpg < /dev/null &
ffmpeg -i movie-part2.avi -sameq -y intermediate2.mpg < /dev/null &
cat intermediate1.mpg intermediate2.mpg |\
ffmpeg -f mpeg -i - -sameq -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libmp3lame All-Done.mp4

So basically you’re making a new mp4 (change mp4 to avi or what ever you want) out of a pair of avi files.

I messed with this on my flv files too with admirable results. Better results than when I used the first very simple ffmpeg I showed earlier.
Hope this helps,

Justin

I have had Tomato Linux on my Linksys WRT54GL for about 6 months now. At first I had delusions of making that wireless router the do everything box in my rack; that didn’t work so well. (See my network “work” here).

Anyhow, I decided to run my “Vonage Linksys” router as the central point with the Tomato Linksys WRT54GL as the wireless tool and a simple HUB dishing out the splitting duties.

Well, last night I decided to drag out my old Linksys WRT54G v6 with DD-WRT installed (only the micro version) and use “that” as my wireless router, my Tomato powered Linksys as my do it all “but” wireless router/firewall.

I say all this because while upgrading my firmware from Tomato 1.21 to Tomato 1.23 I found this video of a couple of tech guys actually installing Tomato on their Linksys router. Needless to say, upgrading the firmware gives your little Linksys a TON more power to do much more than Linksys ever wanted you to do.

Here’s the video, and I hope you too jump out there get a WRT54GL (The “L” is for Linux) and dump some aftermarket application on there.