Dirac Files

I. Introduction

fmpeg2dirac is a utility that converts any file that can be
decoded by FFmpeg to Dirac or Theora muxed with Vorbis (if
audio exists) in Ogg. It is derived from ffmpeg2theora and
uses the same command line interface as ffmpeg2theora in
addition to a few Dirac specific command line arguments. By
default it uses the Schroedinger library to encode. If
libtheora is installed, it uses the Theora encoder
if --use-theora argument is provided in the command line.
Detailed instructions about how to compile ffmpeg2dirac from
source can be found in the INSTALL notes in the distribution.
A man page, ffmpeg2dirac.1, is present with the distribution
to explain the usage of the application and command line
options available.


II. NEWS

ffmpeg2dirac-0.2.0 on 2011-04-25
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- Schroedinger is now the default video codec used to
  encode video.
- All the Schroedinger encoder options are now fully
  supported.
- All functionality available in ffmpeg2theor v0.27
  is now available in this release.
- Use Skeleton 4.0 by default (including index),
  can be disabled with --skeleton-3 or --no-skeleton
- update to FFmpeg 0.6 branch
- Updated man page to explain encoding options
  available with Schroedinger codec.

ffmpeg2dirac-0.1.0 on 2009-02-12
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- Initial release
- dirac-research is the default video codec used to
  encode video
- Theora encoder enabled using the --use-theora
  command line argument
- Schroedinger encoder enabled at run time using
  the --use-schro command line argument
- Use '-h' for a full list of encoding options
  available.