Transcode is a suite of tools, all of which are command line utilities, for transcoding various video, audio, and container formats, running on a platform that supports shared libraries and threads. Decoding and encoding is done by loaded modules that are responsible for feeding transcode with raw video/audio streams (import modules) and encoding the frames (export modules).
It includes a variety of video and audio filters, including (but not limited to) video de-interlacing, audio resampling, framerate conversion, different video resizing algorithms, smoothing, sharpening, denoisifying, and cutting.
It’s modular concept is intended to provide flexibility and easy user extensibility to include other video/audio codecs or filetypes.
Decode/encode your favorite DVDs or vacation Digital Videos to single CD video files on a platform that supports shared libraries and threads with transcode’s import helpers tcextract and tcdecode.
Key Features
- Video:
- Cut out arbitrary frame region for processing.
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- De-interlace video frame.
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- Fast enlarging of video width/height by a multiple of 32 rows/column up to 1024×768.
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- Fast reduction of video width/height by a multiple of 32 rows/column.
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- High-quality resizing with filter.
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- Cut out arbitrary frame region for encoding.
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- Rescale (downsample) video width/height by a power of 2.
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- Flip video frame upside down.
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- Mirror image of video frame.
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- Swap R and B bytes in video frame.
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- Transform to b/w video frame.
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- Apply gamma correction.
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- Anti-alias video frame.
- Audio:
- Change the volume of the audio stream.
- Resample audio stream.
- Swap byte order in audio stream.
Website: sources.archlinux.org/other/packages/transcode
Support:
Developer: John Varouhakis
License: GNU General Public License
Related Software
| Video Converters | |
|---|---|
| HandBrake | Multithreaded cross-platform media transcoding application |
| FFmpeg | Multimedia player, server and encoder |
| Shutter Encoder | Graphical frontend to FFmpeg with editing features |
| FastFlix | GUI for H.264, HEVC and AV1 hardware and software encoding |
| Videomass | Cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl |
| avconv | Part of libav-tools; fork of FFmpeg |
| VLC | Vdeo player which also converts multimedia to different formats |
| mpv | Cross-platform media player with video encoding support |
| ab-av1 | AV1 encoder with automatic quality selection through sample testing |
| MEncoder | MEncoder is included in MPlayer |
| FFQueue | Graphical frontend to FFmpeg written in C++ |
| Edconv | User-friendly FFmpeg GUI |
| transcode | Utility to encode raw video/audio streams |
| OmniGet | Uses FFmpeg to perform the video conversion |
| MystiQ | GUI for FFmpeg, a powerful media converter |
| Frame | Desktop media conversion utility |
| ffdash | VP9 video encoder |
| Constrict | Compress videos to target sizes |
| Leonardo | Media conversion application |
| Ciano | Easy way to convert your multimedia files to the most popular formats |
| Recoder | GTK4 video transcoding application |
| VidCom | Simple utility for video archiving and compression |
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Where is transcode’s source code currently available and is it maintained?
I’ve updated the article to give an example repository that includes the source code.