LlamaEnc - a Windows video encoding GUI

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Do you have the encoding blues? Always worried about whether you are using the correct settings? Don't know what to do if your video is PAL or if it's 24fps?

Worry no longer!

LlamaEnc is designed as an almost-one-click program for creating the m2v and wav files that we at Vividcon prefer for video submissions. It accepts most major video formats and will mostly know what to do with anything you throw at it.

::::: Download LlamaEnc 1.0 (4.08mb) here. :::::

This link should work for all future versions of LlamaEnc. New versions will be announced at vividcon.

Installing LlamaEnc:

LlamaEnc requires the Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 in order to function. If you do not have this installed, the installer will point you to the download page. It also requires a recent version of avisynth but this is included in the installer if you do not have it already.

I have not tested this program on anything but windows XP. I'm fairly confident that it will run happily on win2k but 95/98/ME I'm less certain. Give it a try and report back.

Using LlamaEnc

The program is fairly straightforward. The main thing to remember is that it's not 100% perfect at knowing what your source footage is, so you will need to tell it if your footage is interlaced or anamorphic and if the framerate has been detected wrong for some reason you need to tell it that too. Otherwise it should be fairly smart.

There is a full user guide included with the program, just press F1 to see it. This also contains more detailed instructions on encoding and tech issues.

Help, Feedback and Comments

Obviously this being my first ever program there are bound to be bugs. Please be patient with the program, it is free afte rall, and if you can report any bugs errors or any other oddities here that will help me improve the program in the future. I am not your general windows tech support but if you are trying to make a video for Vividcon and this program isn't working for you then you can contact me here or via the vividcon tech email address (vvctech at gmail dot com) and I will try and help as best I can.

LlamaEnc shouldn't kill your PC. The installer is very tame. It might not work but that's another thing entirely :)

(x-posted to vividcon)

Comments

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Go to options and choose Always Use Direct Show and see if that helps.

It does! I can see the video and the 'encode' button has appeared.

Thank you so much.