KmPg2 is a user friendly MPEG2 encoding wizard developed by Dik Takken. It assists the user while creating high quality DVD compatible MPEG2 streams from any input video. It is designed to be easy to use, requiring little technical knowledge. The wizard uses the powerful video processing tools and the MPEG encoder from the MJPEGTools project.
KmPg2 has the ability to optimise the input video before it enters the encoder, which results in high quality MPEG output. To this end, KmPg2 features a 'profiler' that enables the user to interactively create optimisation profiles for specific types of video material. For example, you could get the best quality out of your MiniDV camera by creating a special profile for it, which you can re-use for every recording. Or you could create a profile tuned for restoring one specific aging VHS tape.
Go to the SourceForge Project Page
Features
- Produces DVD compliant MPEG2 streams from (almost) *any* input video
- Copy full surround AC3 soundtrack from AVI to MPEG2
- Supports adding subtitles from various subtitle file formats
- High output quality due to use of MJPEGTools filters
- Create and store custom image processing presets
- Convert PAL AVI file to NTSC DVD and vice versa
- 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
- Correct treatment of both progressive and interlaced input video
- Support for removing overscan areas
- 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
News August 2nd 2006
SoftPedia has published a review of KmPg2, and awarded KmPg2 with a Very Good rating. "Probably the easiest way to DVD compliant video."
June 10th 2006
KmPg2 version 1.96 was just released. It adds a workaround for the problems that emerged when the experimental X.org Composite Extension was loaded. Enjoy!
May 20th 2006
It seems that recent FFMPEG versions do not accept their own default settings for the AC3 codec, which caused a 'Your FFMPEG version cannot generate AC3 streams' message. This problem has been fixed in KmPg2 version 1.95.
May 11th 2006
Version 1.94 of KmPg2 has been released, which brings lots of bugfixes and improvements. Bitrate calculations are now much more accurate, so your MPEG2 files will always fit on a DVD disk. If you convert a big AVI file, it will even tell you which bitrate to use in order to make it fit precisely. Also, adding subtitles works much better now.
April 16th 2006
I received some reports that KmPg2 fails on distributions that use CVS versions of FFMPEG. Version 1.93 attempts to fix this issue.
It seems that KmPg2 does not work when the experimental X Composite Extension is loaded. KmPg2 uses the 'yuvplay' utility from MJPEGTools to display yuv4mpeg video streams.
April 12th 2006
Some people experienced extreme slowness in KmPg2, because it would sometimes decode the entire input video, just to detect its properties. I just uploaded version 1.92, which fixes this issue. Have fun.
March 12th 2006
KmPg2 version 1.91 has been released. It adds a second unsharp masking pass, which can be useful when encoding very high quality, very high resolution video material.
March 10th 2006
Sourceforge.net accepted my request for a project page for KmPg2. So here it is. All downloads will be moved here shortly.
January 9th, 2006
I just released the big rewrite of KmPg2 which you can also download at kde-apps.org. The new version can read almost any video file and convert it to a nice DVD compatible MPEG2 stream. You can read all the details on kde-apps.org
November 13th, 2005
Some update on the progress of the new KmPg2 2.0 for you today. Development KmPg2 2.0 is progressing nicely, the Bash scripts that do the actual work are finished. It can now decode DV, MPEG, DivX, MJPEG, WMV and many, many more video formats/codecs. The video filtering/processing framework that was already present in KmPg2 0.9x turns out to be highly effective for reducing compression artifacts in video files. Low-bitrate video files look really nice when they are converted to MPEG2 files using KmPg2 2.0. I expect to release KmPg2 version 1.95 within two weeks or so.
September 27th, 2005
Yeehah. The first public release of KmPg2 has arrived! KmPg2 is a user friendly MPEG2 encoder wizard that uses the video processing / encoding technology of MJPEGTools 1.7.0. The goal of the project is to allow anybody to create high quality DVD compliant MPEG2 streams without any required technical knowledge. Please leave your comments on the KDE project-page.
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