Free absolute encoder software for linux

Versatile Encoder allows you to encode your own videos into good quality mpeg4 or h264. The input can be a sequence of files (as generated by blender), a file (if you want to recompress something) or a DVD/VCD (if you need to backup some movie).

This piece of software tries to guess good defaults and to help the user in his choices. It works at least under Windows and Linux, the coding platform is Linux.

It should work without a hassle under all BSD variants and probably under MacOSX too, report me if you get it working somewhere else.

Asunder is a graphical CD ripper and encoder. It supports WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC. It has CDDB support and can create M3U playlists.
It uses GTK2 and is desktop environment independent. It is multithreaded, so it can rip and encode at the same time. It aims to make CD ripping as quick and easy as possible.
Main features:
- Support for WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files
- Uses CDDB to name and tag each track
- Can encode to multiple formats in one session
- Creates M3U playlists
- Allows for each track to be by a different artist
- Does not require a specific desktop environment

smp-encode is a compact utility that encodes groups of audio files in parallel to make use of multiple CPUs with single threaded encoders.
smp-encode project supports supports OggEnc and LAME.
Usage:
smp-encode is invoked with 3 mandatory arguments.
-e < encoder > where encoder is one of the available builtin modules, "lame" or "oggenc" as of now. encoder arguments are hardcoded in encoder.cpp, but in the future these will be defined on smp-encodes commandline.
-p < N > where N refers to any number over over 0. This will cause smp-encode to generate N processes to be used to encode the given files. Given files are evenly distributed.
The last mandatory argument is a choice between a list of files, either given explicitly or via wildcard (eg. ./*.wav) or the -d < directory > argument.
As of now, successful invocations dont display anything during runtime, in the future some progress info will be reported.
Compile:
You should be fine with just running make and then make install. This will generate a program named smp-encode that is stripped. And throw it in /usr/local/bin
If you need to add encoders or edit the argvs of them, encoder.cpp is where all that stuff is done.
Enhancements:
- A complete rewrite using the GTK+2.0 UI.
- Thread control (pause and cancel).
- Many options from LAME and oggenc are implemented in the GUI.
- Progress bars indicate individual thread progress.
- Many other tweaks and bugfixes related to the rewrite.

KmPg2 is a very simple to use MPEG2 encoding wizard that allows the user to create high quality DVD compatible MPEG2 streams, without requiring any technical knowledge.
Creating high quality MPEG2 streams involves a lot more than simply feeding the input video to mpeg2enc/transcode/mencoder/etc.
The input video needs to be carefully prepared by pulling it through a chain of stream processing tools like low-pass filters, color correction filters, static and dynamic chroma and luma noise filters, scalers, and so on.
This processing chain needs to be tuned in such a way that all irrelevant data (like noise) is removed before the video enters the encoder. KmPg2 uses the video processing / encoding tools from the MJPEGTools project to achieve this.
KmPg2 features a profiler that enables the user to interactively create custom pre-processing pipelines that are optimised for a specific type of video material. These preprocessing pipelines (profiles) can be stored and used with the actual encoding wizard.
For example, you could create a profile that is designed especially for restoring a single aging VHS tape, or you could create a profile tuned for your digital camcorder and re-use it for every new recording that needs to be encoded.
At this moment KmPg2 accepts only one format of input video: Raw Sony DV video streams. This is the video format that most people use nowadays for high quality video processing and editing. Support for using AVI files for input is expected in future versions.
Main features:
- Produces DVD compliant MPEG2 streams
- Seperate chroma/luma noise filtering
- Low-Pass filtering support
- Contrast/Brightness/Saturation correction
- White balance correction
- Special black-and-white mode
- Crop image to Widescreen (16:9) or Panavision (2.35:1)
- Output conforms to Rec.601 specifications
- Both constant bitrate and variable bitrate encoding
- Unsharp masking
- Supports progressive and interlaced source material
- Support for removing overscan area
- Provides feedback to user about average/peak bitrates
- Show output on screen while encoding
- Generate encoding shell scripts
- Generate quick preview-encodings of parts of source video

Feast (Far East Trader) is an IRC to SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) translator.

SILC stands for Secure Internet Live Conferencing. SILCs purpose in life is to provide a secure chat environment. The raw protocol is an absolute bear to work with and the C toolkit isnt much better. With that said many have found their way off of IRC and onto SILC.

If you would like to communicate with people on SILC then Far East Trader might be the tool youve been looking for. Combined with tools like stunnel or inetd Far East Trader can act as a bouncer allowing IRC clients to connect to SILC servers.