Pencoder is a simple frontend for mencoder. Its original purpose is to help re-encoding video files for play these in PDAs, but it is also a nice generic purpose frontend.
Please, visit the homepage at http://pencoder.sourceforge.net/ for more information.
Copy pencoder
to anywhere in your path such as $HOME/bin
or /usr/local/bin
Pencoder has been developed and tested in some Debian GNU/Linux systems but it should run in any Unix-like operating system where there are mplayer/mencoder and Perl available.
All packages should be provided by your distribution, alternative sources explained:
Pencoder is menu driven, so you should not need too much instructions.
Run pencoder --help
to get a list of execution's flags.
You can create multiple sets of options using the Profiles
menu, and store
them in $HOME/.pencoder
with the Save settings
menu option.