Converting Various .avi and other files in Ubuntu 9.04
 

G'day to LQ and all it's posters.:):confused:
have only been Ubuntuing for about 6mths I have Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 64 bit am trying convert downloaded movies but some are .avi and mVs also other m$ formats some apps that I download that said to do the job say wrong architecture so I am left perplexed as to what to do.:scratch:
PS have ffmpeg, xine, dragon player, vlc, mplayer, movie player and devede and still there is some .formats that I just cant read let alone convert please help as my kids are on the warpath.:cry:

Not sure but maybe this one?

http://fossfor.us/software/name/Avidemux

BTW, do you know any software aside from Final Cut or other apple software that will convert files to ProRes?

convert them to what format?

ffmpeg is a good general purpose converter if you don't mind the command-line, but you say you already have tried that. can you be more specific, maybe give us an example of one file you've tried to convert and failed?

Sounds like you are trying to install other than 64 bit software on a 64 bit OS.
Yes, some formats do not work at this time on Linux. I do not know whether this is a limitation of 64 bit Linux or whether it is typical of all Linux; it is a fact that 64 bit has fewer win32 codecs so it may well be 64 bit specific. Even so, these formats are few. I have many thousands of movie files but there are only two that I cannot get to play on Linux.