An easy multimedia transcoder for GNOME
Project description
An easy to use multimedia transcoder for the GNOME Desktop. Arista focuses on being easy to use by making the complex task of encoding for various devices simple. Pick your input, pick your target device, choose a file to save to and go.
Arista has been in development since early 2008 as a side project and was just recently polished to make it release-worthy. The 0.8 release is the first release available to the public. Please see http://github.com/danielgtaylor/arista for information on helping out.
Features
Presets for Android, iPod, computer, DVD player, PSP, and more
Live preview to see encoded quality
Automatically discover available DVD drives and media
Rip straight from DVD media easily
Automatically discover and record from Video4Linux devices
Support for H.264, WebM, FLV, Ogg, DivX and more
Batch processing of entire directories easily
Simple terminal client for scripting
Nautilus extension for right-click file conversion
Requirements
Arista is written in Python and requires the bindings for GTK+ 2.16 or newer, GStreamer, GConf, GObject, Cairo, and udev. If you are an Ubuntu user this means you need to be using at least Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty). The GStreamer plugins required depend on the presets available, but at this time you should have gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly, and gst-ffmpeg. If you are on Ubuntu don’t forget to install the multiverse packages.
Note: WebM support requires at least GStreamer’s gst-plugins-bad-0.10.19.
