14 DAY TRIAL // Transmageddon, a powerful video transcoder for Linux and Unix systems built using Gstreamer, has just reached version 1.0 after many years in development.
If you’ve ever wanted to transform a video from one file format to another, then you know that finding a good transcoding application is difficult. On the Linux platform, there are a few, but most are only in command line and we all know how fun that can be. On the Windows platform, the good ones usually cost a great deal of money.
Transmageddon, on the other hand, is free and the developer has been working on it for a very long time. It supports practically every format and resolution you can imagine, and it works without any hiccups or problems.
“It supports almost any format as its input and can generate a very large host of output files. The goal of the application was to help people to create the files they need to be able to play on their mobile devices and for people not hugely experienced with multimedia to generate a multimedia file without having to resort to command line tools with ungainly syntaxes,” says the developer Christian Schaller.
“It has been a long time in the making, but I have finally cut a new release of the Transmageddon transcoder application. The code inside Transmageddon has seen some major overhaul as I have updated it to take advantage of new GStreamer APIs and features,” also notes Christian Schaller.
There are quite a few of new features, besides the support for the new Gstreamer and the updated code. For example, support has been added for files with multiple audio streams, which will allow users to transcode them to different codecs, DVD ripping support has been added (users just pop in the DVD and Transmageddon will take care of the rest), and VP9 support has been implemented.
This latest DVD ripping feature doen't work right out the box. Users will need to get lsdvd library and the GStreamer dvdread plugin from gst-plugins-ugly, and the libdvdcss mac library in order to make it work.
Users can also now set language information on files with one audio stream inside, which will help greatly if they are working with files that have multiple audio streams. This will also be useful if you are ripping a DVD with multiple audio streams.
Check out the official announcement for more details about this release. You can also download Transmageddon 1.0 right now from Softpedia.