Linux Journal published second part of its “Multimedia Command-Line Tools” series. This time Transcode is presented.

Transcode is a new command-line tool on the horizon for video and audio transformations. Transcode used to give me horrors, but it is much better now. It does take some time to learn its wonderfully unintuitive syntax – the author used all the lowercase and uppercase English alphabet letters for specifying the command-line options. Using longer mnemonic options common in other Linux commands might have made things easier.

Author of the article gives some remarks on:

• applying certain video filters to smooth, blur, enhance, add or remove logos, apply masks and so on with Transcode,
• taking sound files as audio input for the video and redirect the output audio to a different file,
• applying a huge filter chains.

The article is available here.