Anyone know of good Linux AVI to MP4 converter?
Fairfax
they talked faster on the video than Alvin's chipmunks!
If this isn't the appropriate ng to ask for Linux freeware, pls advise
where. I've searched the available ngs but there's few relating to
Linux apps, it seems, let alone freeware. thx
Craig
Hi Fairfax;
Sorry I can't help more... I don't do video stuff. Here's some
possiblities: <http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html#43>.
Other than that, I can suggest you visit the good peeps at Linux Mint.
They put together a distro that's oriented towards multimedia issues.
Finally, there's another newsgroup that's Ubuntu-oriented but they
should be able to give pointers: alt.os.linux.ubuntu.
hth,
--
-Craig
Fairfax
wrote:
Hi, checking it out now. ... Wow, looks like an awesome page. A
list of software that's esp. helpful to those of us Window$ users
trying to switch over! Awesome place to start. If I find anything
useful, I'll report back.
I'm in the process of going over to Linux. I've just had it with
Window$, so as the page says, this is one of the "difficult" tasks,
finding software. Despite my years of experience finding, dl and
testing software, Linux requires a bit of a different approach and
that's what is taking time.
I have LinuxMint. I dl and tried about a dozen distros and found
Fedora 11 easiest for me and the most customizable out-of-the box
(even better, for me, than F12!), but I tried LM out yesterday. Will
try it again, it might then have what I need.
2
Who says I can't use one distro for now for the majority of my tasks
and use LM for the multimedia stuff, just until I can switch over to
Linux completely (requires a new external hdd to move over my 200gigs
of Window$ stuff over to.)
thx
Craig
> I'm in the process of going over to Linux.
Patience. That's all I'm going to say. I haven't been able to entirely
toss windows (Internet Explorer required for a handful of business
sites). Apart from that though, I've regained a lot of time I used to
spend on Windows admim/security issues. Anyway, here's a resource I
just (re-) discovered in my bookmarks file:
<http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/05/22/open-courseware-for-linux-geeks-50-resources/>
Let us know what you find out!
--
-Craig
Dave
HandBrake will handle any video conversion you need.
http://handbrake.fr/details.php
Dave
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Registered Linux user # 444770
windhello
It’s a piece of extremely powerful and full-featured converter
software that supports almost all video and audio formats. The
software is designed to convert video for your mobile video player as
3gp, mp4, PSP, PS3, iPod, iPhone etc and also VCD or DVD player,
XBOX360
http://www.google.com/search?q=Total+Video+Converter+&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLL_zh-CN
http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/index.htm
Poutnik
Spa...@NoJunkMail.org says...
It depends on what is your goal,
and what is source video/audio format in AVI
and what is target video/audio format in MP4.
In general, I recommend AviDemux,
being not convertor, but editor.
both gui and CLI.
Can just convert container, with optional reencoding.
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Poutnik
The best depends on how the best is defined.
pete
You might have to wait, or hunt around for a different version.
From the website:
" 0.9.3 is no longer works on ubuntu due to a libgtk update.
This will be resolved with the 0.9.4 release.
There is currently no ETA for this release. "
Dave
Must be the 9.10 version of Ubuntu.Handbrake works fine on 9.04 here.
rich
Check here
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/linux-video-tools
The sound problems seem to be worst with ffmpeg based front-ends such as
WinFF and Avidemux. Probably for .mp4 conversion Handbrake would seem
best.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/HandBrake
I go the other direction, bbc .mov (quicktime mpeg4) to xvid .avi for
playing on my dvd recorder. Use a long mencoder command line, easy once
it is set up but initially a bit like learning sanskrit.
--
rich
Fairfax
wrote:
I most definitely will. I'm still looking.
Actually, the most challenging bit in all this will ultimately be
replacing the apps I use. My nearly-full 14gig PROGRAMS partition
currently contains 122 category folders which contain anywhere from 2
or 3 to 15-20 subfolders containing the apps folders themselves. If
one does the math, that makes for an awful lot of programs in my
repertoire and all mostly freeware and standalone if not outright
portable (and yeah, I use most on a regular basis, the rest on an
infrequent basis but those tasks that need doing occasionally. Yes, a
very small handful are shell extensions, too, but they count <g>).
But I'm determined, so I hope to eventually find Linux "equivalents"
... eventually ... <g>
I've been working on this conversion process for 2 weeks and a day!
It's a bit daunting , admittedly, but Win7 and MS Office 2007 were the
absolute last straw because although I haven't seen Win7 yet, Office
2007 blows away all my work of more than a decade by making the
enhancements on my spreadsheets and Word docts _and_ ALL my customized
toolbars OBSOLETE! (Nope, those stupid add-ins to get custom toolbars
"back" don't work worth beans! I only get _some_ parts of my toolbars
back, but no longer one-click access - they get _buried_ in the stupid
RIBBON!!!! Ugh!)
Re the OS part, I was past the point of _fed_up_ when all the offices
I contracted out to had to go through the upgrade to Win 2000 some
years back.
Yeah, I liked it when we went from DOS to Win3x (yeay!) and I liked
Win95 more than Win3x! And, boy, I loved and still love Win98SE, But
I lost a lot of functionality (for _me_) since Win98SE was trashed
that I haven't been able to fix on XP even with extensive help from
several MVPs on MS ngs! So now? Well, way past fed up now! I _hate_
XP so never dreamed up upgrading to Vista or Window$ 7. This is the
end of WinOS for me.
So it's going to be goodbye WinOS at home for good and hello Linux
installed as soon as I can swing it!
Fairfax
>In article <6isig5h5c1lai3kjo...@4ax.com>,
>Spa...@NoJunkMail.org says...
>>
>> I managed to find one and ran a few AVIs through it only to find that
>> they talked faster on the video than Alvin's chipmunks!
>>
>> If this isn't the appropriate ng to ask for Linux freeware, pls advise
>> where. I've searched the available ngs but there's few relating to
>> Linux apps, it seems, let alone freeware. thx
>
>It depends on what is your goal,
?
>and what is source video/audio format in AVI
>and what is target video/audio format in MP4.
Well, that's the whole point, not to have to worry about that. I'd
hope for an app that handles a broad range.
In Windows, I uses DVDShrink to rip (sigh, going to miss that one) and
then AutoGK to convert to AVI at my desired size in megs (sigh,
another great app I'll miss).
For dl AVIs, when I had trouble due to the variables in the AVI
container, would run it straight through as video/audio stream and
that fixed 99% of them so that they ran through AutoGK.
>In general, I recommend AviDemux,
>being not convertor, but editor.
>both gui and CLI.
Oh, god, no commandline pls. Even in Linux I'm looking for GUI
alternative (quite it with the tomatoes you Linux-geeks, you!! <g>)
I had little success in working with AviDemux <sheepish grin>.
>Can just convert container, with optional reencoding.
Um, you lost me there. How would one do that. I'm used to easy
automation with the above 3 apps, so don't know what you mean here
(all RIGHT with the tomatoes!! I get it!! <vbg>)
Fairfax
I normally only deal with AVI myself, too, but my brother has a Sony
Walkman NWZ-E344 MP3 Player and no computer. So I'm trying to convert
some of our DVD/AVI collection to MP4 format for him.
Trouble is that my WinXP has started corrupting. I'm way overdue for
a wipe-reinstall. Though I'll probably have to do that this weekend
since I still can't go fully Linux yet, was still hoping to see if a
Linux-run app would work as of now.
I've had WinXP for over 2 years now and one of the first real
indicators that it needs to have one of those stupid wipes done is
that the audio on converted videos is out of sync. Nothing has ever
fixed that but a complete system reformat and OS reinstallation! It
would have been so kewl to see a Linux app do the converting properly
even with my XP system in the shape it's in. But I am running off of
a LiveCD, so that might be what caused part of the glitches. I did
find one app to do the job but though it reencoded the video just
fine, the audio was even worse the out-of-sync vids produced earlier
because they sounded like Alvin's buddies on accelerators of some
kind!! If the Chipmunks are bad, this audio was beyond horrible!!
<lol>
But will keep looking. <g>
Poutnik
Spa...@NoJunkMail.org says...
>
> >It depends on what is your goal,
>
> >and what is source video/audio format in AVI
> >and what is target video/audio format in MP4.
>
> Well, that's the whole point, not to have to worry about that. I'd
> hope for an app that handles a broad range.
What container, audio / video codec / video profile level the taget
device can handle ?
Converting App may handle the whole range,
the question is if playing device can handle it too.
Even if can hangle MP4, it may or may not be able
to handle used A/V encoding.
And, even if able to handle all encoding formats,
it may not be able to handle all MPEG-4 AVC profiles.
You need either to get device specification and encode for it,
either just try if it plays it.
>
> Oh, god, no commandline pls. Even in Linux I'm looking for GUI
> alternative (quite it with the tomatoes you Linux-geeks, you!! <g>)
I am not Linux user :-), if not counting occational Live ISO runs.
I would in general recommend you to ask
http://forum.doom9.org
highly ranked videoprocessing forum.
I bet somebody will advice you.