There are now two installers for the Idiot Proof Video Converter, for x86 and x64.  For those of you who downloaded and couldn’t run it, I apoligized I missed a depdency in the installer, but please let me know if it is still not working for you.

I finally got around to adding a few new features, which are included in the installer (click the link to the left).  I added input of OGG, AVI, and MP4, and tested it a lot more.  If you have some sample files where the subtitles don’t work properly on OGG, let me know, and I can try and perfect it a bit more.

I’m thinking of adding youtube support later, but unfortunately, thanks to Hurricane Gustav, I probably won’t be coding much this week.

I’m in the middle of trying to write a small app that will halfway intelligently inspect a MKV file, pick the subtitle based on a configuration file, and then convert the file to a manageable size so that I can load it on my iPhone.  Took me three or four days of playing with different parameters before I finally figured it out.  Here’s the .bat file I’m using to convert a couple of sample MKV files for my iPhone.  It does use MP4 instead of H264, but I’m happy with this for now since it takes a lot less time to convert.

Note that alang is the Audio Language, slang is the subtitle language and they are usually “eng” or “jap” (I don’t have any other files available to see what the abbreviated language title should be)

Keep an eye out for my video conversion app for Windows sometime soon.  Its hosted on Google Code right now, but its not really polished.  Also, nicmp4box.exe (google for it) is a little app that adds the flag to the file so that iTunes will accept it as iPhone compatible.

rem usage example: iphone_mkv.bat inputfile.mkv outputfile.mp4 eng jap
set input=%1
set output=%2
set slang=%3
set alang=%4
set temp=temp.mp4
ECHO Stage: 1/2 Running MEncoder
mencoder\mencoder "%input%" -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -vf-add scale=480:320 -vf-add harddup -ofps 25 -af lavcresample=44100 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts aglobal=1:vglobal=1:acodec=libfaac:abitrate=128:vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=768:keyint=25 -alang %alang% -slang %slang% -o %temp%
ECHO Stage: 2/2 Running MP4 Box
MP4Box\nicmp4box -add %temp% "%output%"
ECHO Cleaning Up
del %temp%
Echo Done.


I am in the middle of nuking my computer, selling the parts, and hopefully building a much more powerful computer to act as my server.  During this time, I’m gravitating away from the wiki page I did have towards a WordPress blog since it will facilitate my needs (for free!).

I’ll try and have pages for my tutorials and software up as soon as I can.  Thanks.

I’m moving my projects over to Google Code and I will link them in the Software section above.  They should be available within a few days.