I have a Creative Zen, its a very nice little mp3/video player, and while it plays xVid/DivX/WMV its a bit picky about what it will play.

So ive created this script to convert videos to a format it will play (320×240, xVid, with auto black bars to maintiain aspect ratio & 128KB ABR MP3 audio).
Its a Bash script using Mplayer / Mencoder.

Files

• convzen.sh
  
  

  !/bin/bash

  usage()
{
[ -n "$1" ] && echo -e "Error: $1n"
echo "Usage: convzen.sh [Input File]"
exit
}

  if [ $# != 1 ]
then
usage "Input file not specified"
fi

  OUTPUTDIR="/home/$USER/Videos/Zen/"

  INPUT=$1
FILENAME=basename "$INPUT" | sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/' #Get file name and remove file extension
OUTPUT="${OUTPUTDIR}${FILENAME}.avi"

  Ensure input file exists

  [ -f "$INPUT" ] || usage "Input file does not exist"

  Ensure output dir exists

  [ -d "$OUTPUTDIR" ] || mkdir -p "$OUTPUTDIR"

  Pass 1

  mencoder "$INPUT"
-vf scale=320:-3,expand=320:240
-ovc xvid -xvidencopts bvhq=1:chroma_opt:quant_type=mpeg:bitrate=400:pass=1:turbo
-oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128
-o /dev/null

  Pass 2

  mencoder "$INPUT"
-vf scale=320:-3,expand=320:240
-ovc xvid -xvidencopts bvhq=1:chroma_opt:quant_type=mpeg:bitrate=400:pass=2
-oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128
-o "$OUTPUT"


Update: 1/5/09

This is giving me A/V Desync issues, not sure what it causing it.