Pencoder README file

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.

INSTALL

Copy pencoder to anywhere in your path such as $HOME/bin or /usr/local/bin

REQUERIMENTS

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:

mplayer/mencoder

You can get it from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ or if you use Debian you can install the excellents unofficial packages maintained by Christian Marillat: http://hpisi.nerim.net/

whiptail (optional: dialog, xdialog, zenity)

The default user interface backend, you can use the others also.

Perl module UI::Dialog

You can get it from CPAN or if you use Debian you can get the .deb I've packaged from http://pencoder.sf.net/UI::Dialog/

USAGE

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.