[gentoo-user] OT: convert mov to avi

[gentoo-user] OT: convert mov to avi

[Adrian]

Greetings;

Does anyone know of a program, command line would be great, which will
simply convert a mov video to an avi video.  Nothing fancy, just change
the format.

Thank you much.
Adrian



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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: convert mov to avi

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Saturday 02 September 2006 14:09, Adrian wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Does anyone know of a program, command line would be great, which will
> simply convert a mov video to an avi video.  Nothing fancy, just change
> the format.
>
> Thank you much.
> Adrian

ffmpeg is probably what you're looking for.

If you mean to change only the container format then I believe the following 
command will work:

$ ffmpeg -i foo.avi -f mov -acodec copy -vcodec copy foo.mov

Otherwise if you want to transcode the video to those commonly associated with 
the mov container format than the following command should do the trick:

$ ffmpeg -i foo.avi foo.mov

Reading some ffmpeg documentation would be a good idea as well.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: convert mov to avi

[Adrian]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:28:59 +0930
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com> wrote the words:

> Oh sorry I misread your message, swap 'mov' and 'avi' in my previous
> message and it should still apply :p
> 
> You may want to specify some codecs when transcoding to avi format, I
> don't know what ffmpeg defaults are but the following should suffice:
> 
> $ ffmpeg -i foo.mov -f avi -acodec mp3 -vcodec mpeg4 foo.avi
> 
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*haha*  Right on.  I was just reading the man page.  I think I can use
this to strip the audio as well, which would be a huge bonus.  

Thanks again.


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