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Old 05-19-2005, 01:16 AM   #1
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Converting Video files?


Ok, I have some huge video files that I want to combine into one big clip. They're encoded with divx, but in Totem it says mpeg-4. They play fine. In WIndows I tried using Windows Media Encoder but it crashed on both machines. So what I need to do is convert them to something Windows can handle, or combine them in Mandrake.
What can I use to convert and/or combine the bloody things?
 
Old 05-19-2005, 04:16 AM   #2
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Divx is just an implementation of mpeg4, same with xvid, etc.
google for "all codecs" to grab one of those codec packs for your XP box.
 
Old 05-19-2005, 06:16 AM   #3
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Divx is just an implementation of mpeg4, same with xvid, etc.
google for "all codecs" to grab one of those codec packs for your XP box.
I tried that, and it still doesn't work.
 
Old 05-20-2005, 12:16 AM   #4
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What wrapper is it in? (.avi, .mkv, etc?)
Konverter has a gui interface (uses MEncode), can concat, etc... maybe try that.
 
Old 05-20-2005, 10:12 AM   #5
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They are divx encodes AVI files.
I used VirtualDub to combine the files, and convert them to raw AVI with no compression... the files were huge around 11 gigs. From there, I used WIndows Media Encoder to convert them to WMV format.
There is zero observable quality loss - I was pretty impressed. I made sure the resolutions stayed them same - etc.
I'll check out Konverter though, I'm sure I'll run into a file at some point that I'll need to convert.

this ought to do it!
[root@Justin]# urpmi gmencoder
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (20 MB):
ffmpeg-0.4.8-6mdk.i586
gmencoder-0.1.1-0.cvs20040222.1mdk.i586
libdha0.1-1.0-0.pre3.13mdk.i586
libdv2-0.101-1mdk.i586
libdvdread3-0.9.4-2mdk.i586
libffmpeg0-0.4.8-6mdk.i586
libggi-2.0.4-1mdk.i586
libggi2-2.0.4-1mdk.i586
libgii-0.8.4-1mdk.i586
libgii0-0.8.4-1mdk.i586
libimlib2_1-1.0.6-4mdk.i586
libimlib2_1-filters-1.0.6-4mdk.i586
libimlib2_1-loaders-1.0.6-4mdk.i586
liblzo1-1.08-3mdk.i586
libpostproc0-1.0-0.pre3.13mdk.i586
libxmms1-1.2.9-4mdk.i586
mencoder-1.0-0.pre3.13mdk.i586
mplayer-1.0-0.pre3.13mdk.i586
Is this OK? (Y/n) y

ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-1mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-4mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-1mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-4mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-4mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...13mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-1mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-6mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...13mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-2mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...13mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-1mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...13mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-3mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-4mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-6mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr...-1mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandr....1mdk.i586.rpm
The following packages have bad signatures:
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gmencoder-0.1.1-0.cvs20040222.1mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#78d019f5 NOT OK)
Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y
installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libggi2-2.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gmencoder-0.1.1-0.cvs20040222.1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libimlib2_1-loaders-1.0.6-4mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libggi-2.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libimlib2_1-filters-1.0.6-4mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libimlib2_1-1.0.6-4mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libpostproc0-1.0-0.pre3.13mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgii0-0.8.4-1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ffmpeg-0.4.8-6mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/mencoder-1.0-0.pre3.13mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libdvdread3-0.9.4-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libdha0.1-1.0-0.pre3.13mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgii-0.8.4-1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/mplayer-1.0-0.pre3.13mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/liblzo1-1.08-3mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libxmms1-1.2.9-4mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libffmpeg0-0.4.8-6mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libdv2-0.101-1mdk.i586.rpm
Preparing... ##################################################
1:libdv2 ##################################################
2:libxmms1 ##################################################
3:liblzo1 ##################################################
4:libdvdread3 ##################################################
5:libpostproc0 ##################################################
6:libffmpeg0 ##################################################
7:libdha0.1 ##################################################
8:libgii0 ##################################################
9:libggi2 ##################################################
10:mplayer ##################################################
11:mencoder ##################################################
12:libggi ##################################################
13:libgii ##################################################
14:libimlib2_1-loaders ##################################################
15:libimlib2_1 ##################################################
16:ffmpeg ##################################################
17:gmencoder ##################################################
18:libimlib2_1-filters ##################################################
[root@Prometheus justin]# urpmi mencode
The following packages contain mencode:
gmencoder
mencoder
[root@ justin]# urpmi mencoder
Everything already installed
[root@ justin]#

Last edited by Snump; 05-20-2005 at 10:18 AM.
 
Old 04-11-2007, 06:41 PM   #6
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you can get a program called avicat that will combine divx. I'm not sure what package it's in in mandriva, but it's in avifile-utils under debian.
 
  


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