transcoder recommendation: Avidemux

[Richard Pieri]

On Dec 25, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
>   Avidemux is a free open-source program designed for multi-purpose
>   video editing and processing, which can be used on almost all known
>   operating systems and computer platforms.

I'm amused at the claim of "almost" when the supported build systems are for various Linux distributions and Microsoft Windows.  Hint: there are a lot more known operating systems and computer platforms than those and Avidemux won't build on most of them.  But that's the wiki, not the real home.  Try this:
http://avidemux.berlios.de/index.html

That said, Avidemux uses Don Graft's telecide and decimate filters which I think are the best around for restoring progressive frames at the original frame rate.

--Rich P.