[Novalug] Video converter

[John Franklin]

On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>
> Whoa!  Lo'n behold ...
>
> http://freshmeat.net/search?q=ffmpeg+GUI&submit=Search
>
> A lot of this stuff is over five (5) years old.
>

That link returned a grand total of 7 hits, broken down we have:

* 2 VoIP applications
* 1 ffmpeg front end for Mac OS X (that I've used and would only  
recommend it if your alternative is doing ffmpeg via SMS on a RAZR  
with a wonky 6 key)
* 1 that processes video to "detect shots" (crime prevention?  photo  
shoot video taping?)  No home page, no downloads.
* 1 that specifically creates video for mobile phones (3gpp)

Of the two that might fit, the first one Xmffmpeg has a home page now  
owned by a squatter, and thus instantly disqualified.  The second one  
WinFF is primarily written for Windows, but they bothered to do a GTK  
port.  By just the name i ignored it entirely the first time through  
the list assuming it was a Windows only program.  Based on the screen  
shots, this might be workable, but I have little hope of it being a  
"good" solution.

There really isn't a good linux front-end for video conversion to  
DVD.  I wish there were.

Interestingly enough, Handbrake doesn't even show up.  HB doesn't  
create DVDs, but it does use ffmpeg.

jf
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/novalug/attachments/20091006/2b8fdd15/attachment.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 3914 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/novalug/attachments/20091006/2b8fdd15/attachment.bin