On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 10:00 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> [...]>
> > <rant>
> > Part of the problem is that all the above tools are clearly aimed at
> > people who know what they're doing. Those of us uninterested in a career
> > in multimedia technology are liable to be completely lost when
> > struggling with any of the (incomplete and ambiguous) manuals, not to
> > mention the baroque syntax of the command-line options. Why are there no
> > "multimedia conversion for dummies" tools in Linux as there are in
> > Windoze?
> > </rant>
> >
> > Anyway, my question is this: does anyone have a useful recipe for this
> > kind of thing?
> >
> > And for extra credit: how about converting FLV (Flash video)?
> >
> > poc
> >
>
> First, I agree with your rant. What the world needs is a media recipe wiki.
>
> But I'd try again with ffmpeg. It has the most active development and
> user group. The helpful users make up for the lousy docs.
Good to know :-)
> 1. Do you have a very recent version of ffmpeg? I'd urge you to use svn,
> but at least 0.5.1.
It's the standard Fedora repo version:
ffmpeg-0.5-5.20091026svn.fc12.x86_64 so possibly not.
> 2. ffmpeg -i source.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.avi , should
> work if source mkv is in mpeg-4 and mp3.
It's H.264 and AC-3:
Duration: 01:32:04.57, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16
> 3. If not, run ffmpeg -i source.mkv and post to the ffmpeg user list.
I may do that. Thanks for the tip.
poc
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