Best video converter for opensuse 11.4 KDE?

rahulcvv · September 23, 2011, 6:22pm

Which is the best video converter for opensuse 11.4 KDE?

oldcpu · September 23, 2011, 6:35pm

Depends. Convert from what to what ?

DenverD · September 23, 2011, 7:35pm

On 09/23/2011 06:36 PM, oldcpu wrote:
> Depends. Convert from what to what ?

oh heck! that is almost exactly how i wanted to answer!!
(i was gonna leave out the “depends”)

so +1

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sailorcire · September 23, 2011, 9:40pm

Doesn’t matter to me; for video I use VLC from format X to Y, more than likely VLC can do it.

Jonathan_R · September 23, 2011, 9:52pm

To convert? VLC will play various formats sure, but I don’t think it converts. grip does, K3B does, and there are others like dvdrip (or whatever its called).

I just ripped a bunch of cd’s with K3B. 53.5 GB worth.

sailorcire · September 23, 2011, 10:46pm

Media -> Convert/Stream (Ctrl + R)

I can post a screen shot if needed, I haven’t used it for ripping (I use K3B for that as well), but converting is just fine.

knurpht · September 25, 2011, 11:11pm

devede to get DVD output from any video file. ffmpeg for conversion from one format to another.

Larx · September 29, 2011, 12:47pm

Handbrake if the target format is mpeg4. Can be installed without any problem from Packman.
(I am a big VLC fan, but I never ever got the intended results when trying to use it to convert video formats. The functionality is, moreover, hidden and undocumented.)

l1zard · October 5, 2011, 3:02pm

for converting dvds to avi i use xvidenc and for all other stuff the handbrake-gui.

jsublette · October 5, 2011, 9:25pm

handbrake-cli gets my vote.

spiollinux · October 8, 2011, 8:08pm

ffmpeg is a great powerful piece of software, but its very difficult to use…

Konvertible is a qt-gui to convert audio files using ffmpeg but it lacks video-converting support…

anybody found another ffmpeg-gui?

67GTA · October 8, 2011, 8:43pm

Winff uses ffmpeg, and converts auido/video. It will even extract audio from video.

acez · October 16, 2011, 12:49am

Avidemux even if the software isn’t perfect.

cw9000 · October 21, 2011, 9:58pm

my favorite for windows is “Super” which uses Mencoder and ffmpeg and is simply a nice gui for them. Unfortunately it doesn’t run from wine. ffmpeg gets my vote, its fast and the quality is there, I just wish somebody would make a gui for it.

martin_helm · October 21, 2011, 10:32pm

cw9000 wrote:

>
> my favorite for windows is “Super” which uses Mencoder and ffmpeg and is
> simply a nice gui for them. Unfortunately it doesn’t run from wine.
> ffmpeg gets my vote, its fast and the quality is there, I just wish
> somebody would make a gui for it.
>
Never tried it but a gui is there:
“WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter FFMPEG”
in packman

martin_helm · October 21, 2011, 10:42pm

martin_helm wrote:

> Never tried it but a gui is there:
> “WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter FFMPEG”
> in packman
>
Sorry, it has no releases in packman, but you can look here (for 11.4)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/enzokiel/openSUSE_11.4_Update
or compile it from source.

67GTA · October 21, 2011, 11:13pm

>Sorry, it has no releases in packman, but you can look here (for 11.4)
>http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...SE_11.4_Update](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/enzokiel/openSUSE_11.4_Update)
>or compile it from source.

I had to compile it from source for 11.4. Before 11.4, it was always in packman. I was going to request someone build an openSUSE package, but I keep forgetting.

cw9000 · October 22, 2011, 7:42am

I tried to compile it from source by running: lazbuild --widgetset=gtk2 -B winff.lpr after finding and installing fpc, fpc-src, and lazarus from here Lazarus - Browse Files at SourceForge.net. I ended up with a winff executable file but all it does is come up with a text box saying there were problems asking if I would like to continue and risk data corruption. I say okay and the program exits. oh well, I tried it. If you notice something obvious that I messed up on be my guest in helping. keep in mind I’m running opensuse 12.1 beta.

martin_helm · October 22, 2011, 2:14pm

If you have some patience I can try it in a few hours on my 12.1 RC1 test
system and tell you what I find.

martin_helm · October 22, 2011, 3:37pm

martin_helm wrote:

> If you have some patience I can try it in a few hours on my 12.1 RC1 test
> system and tell you what I find.
>
Same problem.
Something about an invalid THandle PresetBox and a floting point exception,
I am afraid since I do know near to nothing about lazarus and fpc I do not
know how to solve that.