#!/usr/bin/perl -w # Helper script to ease MEncoder two pass encoding # Copyleft 2001 by Felix Buenemann # This file comes under GPL, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for more # information on it's licensing. use strict; my $mencoder="mencoder"; # Path to MEncoder (including binary name) die <<"EOF" unless @ARGV; Menc2Pass: No arguments given! Please give all usual encoding parameters you would give to mencoder, but leave away the pass= suboption. EOF for(my $i=1; $i<=2; $i++) { my $parm=""; foreach my $val (@ARGV) { if($val =~ /-lavcopts/) { $parm.="$val vpass=$i:"; } elsif($val =~ /-(divx4)|(xvid)opts/) { $parm.="$val pass=$i:"; } else { $parm.="$val "; } } print "Running $mencoder $parm\n"; system($mencoder,$parm) and die "MEncoder pass $i failed!\n" }