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02-03-2014, 09:53 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2013
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Posts: 2
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Converting videos
Dear friends,
Can anybody guide me to find the best software to convert webm videos to other popular video formats in ubuntu 12.04, which I am presently using?
acmfiroz.
Last edited by acmfiroz; 02-03-2014 at 10:04 PM.
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02-04-2014, 02:38 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2010
Location: Planet Earth
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 1,030
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Welcome to LQ!
The program ffmpeg may be what you are looking for, it can convert videos to different formats.
More here.
Cheers
Last edited by ukiuki; 02-04-2014 at 02:40 AM.
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02-04-2014, 02:48 AM
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LQ Muse
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: A2 area Mi.
Posts: 17,688
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it really depends on what you want
a studio program like "cinelerra"
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php
or kdenlive
http://www.kdenlive.org/
or as ukiuki mentioned ffmpeg
a terminal based set of programs
or Mencoder also a terminal program
or
a simple limited program like "handbreak"
it dose not do much but what it dose it dose WELL
http://handbrake.fr/ |
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02-04-2014, 10:33 AM
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Registered: May 2008
Location: West Coast Canada
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I just came back to linus and it has been a while but I think that handbrake should work qnd for DVDs I think it is DeVeDe but like mentioned it has been a while
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1 members found this post helpful.
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02-12-2014, 08:44 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2013
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Posts: 2
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ukiuki
Welcome to LQ!
The program ffmpeg may be what you are looking for, it can convert videos to different formats.
More here.
Cheers |
Thank you for your quote. However I am not conversant with terminal commands. I am looking for a user friendly software to convert video files from one format to other formats. I tried the other two software, but it did not work properly. Thank you once again.
firoz |
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02-12-2014, 09:43 PM
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LQ Muse
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: A2 area Mi.
Posts: 17,688
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both gnome3 and kde4 desktops
have a ffmpeg and / or mencoder "action" for the r-click menu for Nautilus , Dolphin , or konqueror.
check your distro's repos for your desktop
it is possible to r-click a avi and select convert to ogg , or mpg
Last edited by John VV; 02-12-2014 at 09:47 PM.
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02-13-2014, 04:24 AM
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LQ Sage
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
Distribution: Gentoo ~amd64
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First, every recoding is going to reduce quality, it is inevitable because codecs used are lossy.
Second, you may not need to recode anything, maybe just packaging it in a different container would suffice.
To sum it up, you need to dig a little deeper into this, knowing what you are doing always helps.
Get answers to these questions:
What video standard is used in source video?
What audio codec is used in source video?
What container is used in source video?
What video standard, audio codec, container you want to convert to?
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