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Permalink Reply by Jeff "Sweet T" Tinsley on July 27, 2011 at 9:49am

I'm sure Wes Yates will step up with the best advice, but this might get you started.

http://rudd-o.com/new-projects/linuxvideoconverter

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Permalink Reply by Chillicool on July 27, 2011 at 10:12am

Yeah I like Annie Lennox...What era...70's 80's 90's???

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on July 27, 2011 at 1:14pm

Yoooooo man im here. You do skype? wes.yates


This is part of the answer. FFMPEG is a set of utilities to convert most any media file to another. I use WinFF on the windows side to go from MP4 to MP3 (remove audio from video) all the time.

 

http://www.ffmpeg.org/

 

-WY

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on July 27, 2011 at 1:26pm

She sells air conditioners and furnaces, right?

Chillicool said:

Yeah I like Annie Lennox...What era...70's 80's 90's???

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on July 27, 2011 at 1:34pm

Oooo oooo oooo, I see OpenShot uses ffmpeg too but a stripped down version. Hrmmmmm.

 

Not what you wanna hear, but I wonder if WinFF (yeah, Windows side) would convert to what you need.

 

Here is a great link on how to reduce file size via ffmpeg (sorry, command line)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/ffmpeg-dram...

Also

http://www.linuxjournal.com/video/linux-howto-video-editing-magic-f...

Cryptic but promising

http://drupal.org/node/277291

TMI (Too Much Information)

http://support.pandastream.com/discussions/problems/281-ffmpeg-sett...

 

-WY

 

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on July 27, 2011 at 1:36pm

Oh BTW, what distribution you running on there Ben?

 

-WY

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on July 27, 2011 at 1:40pm

Yeah and I think Dave Stewart produced Joss Stone's new album... er something like that.

 

Man, Joss can come and sing to me ANY time. No offense, (TL) Amy Winehouse had nothing on her.

 

-WY

 

Chillicool said:

Yeah I like Annie Lennox...What era...70's 80's 90's???

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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on July 27, 2011 at 10:19pm

Wes, running Linux Mint Debian, Gnome front if that means anything to you!

Im afraid it means little to me - Im not as techy as most Linux users, so all the code is witchcraft to me.

I have tried scattering animal bones over the keyboard and chanting, but even that has failed.

I do have another PC runni9ng on XP, so I could do my conversions over there on Movie Maker then shift them over, but that all seems a bit pointless - surely there is a prog that enables me to open in one format and save in another (smaller) format, no?

No skype Im afraid, but laymans terms would be great!! :o)

Cheers Wes

 

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on July 28, 2011 at 1:42am

He he he, you're a hoot there Ben. Love it. Yeah, tho i'm no Harry Potter on Linux, i do know a few incanations. Mostly voodoo (chickens, bones, rum, gumbo). I will see if i can work up a spell or two. No guarantees.

Im mostly a command line junkie and prolly will have to propose some software installs for ya which might be more of a pain than moving files to Windows.

Do you do facebook? Messge me is you do.

-WY

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on July 28, 2011 at 1:50am

This just in:

http://winff.org/html_new/downloads.html

Has Linux front ends!!! I didn't know that!

-WY

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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on July 28, 2011 at 6:28am

Cheers Wes - PM'd ya :o)

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Permalink Reply by Hip Bone Bellaire on July 28, 2011 at 12:57pm

HandBrake is the best program hands down and even works 10x faster on Linux

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