Video Converter

Hello!

I know it's a very frequent question, but I can't find exactly what I need.

I know there is the ffmpeg tool which allows to convert video from one format to another,

but in everyday life it is not convenient to use a command line tool, so I want to find a simple GUI

application that maybe works with ffmpeg that will allow me to convert video from avi to mp4 (for iPod),

from flv to avi, etc.

Is there anything simple and useful?



Thanks in advance!

avidemux
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Available packaged for openSUSE by the packman packagers: http://packman.links2linux.de/package/avidemux

Hello!

I know it's a very frequent question, but I can't find exactly what I need.

I know there is the ffmpeg tool which allows to convert video from one format to another,

but in everyday life it is not convenient to use a command line tool, so I want to find a simple GUI

application that maybe works with ffmpeg that will allow me to convert video from avi to mp4 (for iPod),

from flv to avi, etc.

Is there anything simple and useful?
Thanks in advance!
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making MP4s for the iPod requires specific settings which avidemux misses. You can manually set it but you first have to know the specific supported features in the iPod - you can try my script http://h264enc.sourceforge.net which has 4 iPod presets

Thank you very much!

Avidemux works great, and it worked with my iPod very well!

Thanks again!

Avidemux works great, and it worked with my iPod very well![/b]

Glad to read it worked for you. I probably should have also included this wiki link, that gives an idea as to some of the conversions avidemux can do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux
One of the nice things about avidemux is the project is very much alive, and the application is constantly being updated.

Having stated that, in terms of pure video quality, I think the h264enc front end application proposed by microchip may yield superior output quality. I have been very impressed by the output quality of his scripts, not to mention their ease of installation, and the way the default settings have been set up for using those converters (h264enc, xvidenc, and divxenc).

Thanks!

I understand that I can't encode into DivX with Avidemux, right?

I understand that I can't encode into DivX with Avidemux, right?[/b]

Microchip is the real forum expert here on this.

But that would be my guess.

However Microchip has produced a new front end application called "divxenc" which does a pretty darn good job of encoding to DivX.

Thanks!

I understand that I can't encode into DivX with Avidemux, right?
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of course you can, avidemux supports a lot of video formats

Frankly speaking, I don't see DivX in the output video options... Can you tell me how I can do it?

Frankly speaking, I don't see DivX in the output video options... Can you tell me how I can do it?
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it's called MPEG-4