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- airstrike, on 05/19/2009, -4/+40A hot girl using Linux? Unpossible.
- ninetimes, on 05/19/2009, -1/+33This is all fine except that they say, "without any loss in quality during the decoding and encoding process". That's not really true. The drop in quality might not be horrendous, but you can't really transcode media files losslessly unless the resulting file is a completely lossless format. Like you can transcode WAV to FLAC and back without a loss in quality, but you can't convert an AAC to an MP3 without losing quality.
- Anand999, on 05/19/2009, -1/+20It's not really blogspam when the blog in question is the original source of the video.
- pshuman, on 05/19/2009, -0/+16ffmpeg (or any transcoding software) can't provide lossless transcoding when you go from one compression algorithm to another format unless the target format is lossless itself or you are keeping the same video data and just updating the container.
- lashtal, on 05/19/2009, -1/+12A hot girl using console to transcode videos and audio files is beyond impossible.
- thesmallone29, on 05/19/2009, -0/+10dugg for potentially hot chick in video
- ShoggothDreams, on 05/19/2009, -2/+12Ummm... when they specified Linux, I expected it to be using an app EXCLUSIVELY usable on Linux... FFMpeg has been crossplatform for years... I use it on my Mac all the time. Great for Linux users, nonetheless...
- kholburn, on 05/19/2009, -1/+10Make money for Microsoft.
- lonniebiz, on 05/19/2009, -0/+9I like that chick. This is the second video I've seen from her on digg.
Let's encourage her to keep up the good work, she could be a star.
However, lets help her be more selective in her videos. For a gui to do the same thing type this at the command prompt:
sudo apt-get install winff
The go to the "Applications" menu, then "Sound & Video", then "Video Converter". - MCA2142, on 05/19/2009, -1/+10push anykey for help on file formats.
- Briandrews15, on 05/19/2009, -0/+9There is a minimum IQ requirement for Linux users. Win & Mac better stay home.
- DarkLaughingMan, on 05/19/2009, -0/+9Like Internet Explorer?
- cdawzrd, on 05/19/2009, -0/+8sunlight
- gamerbambi, on 05/19/2009, -2/+10Is there anything Linux can't do!?
- inactive, on 05/19/2009, -0/+8That chick was hot.
- elal1862, on 05/19/2009, -0/+8Heck, it even runs on AmigaOS :-P
- netengineer10, on 05/19/2009, -1/+9Or you can do:
1.sudo aptitude install avidemux
2.Add video, choose output format
3. Click "Save"
Get your facts straight. - loneraver, on 05/19/2009, -3/+11Replace having a girlfriend. Perhaps in Mint 7.
- tk0680, on 05/19/2009, -0/+7http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
- NixiePixel, on 05/19/2009, -0/+7Thanks for the feedback, yes I have been told about winff by probably the first person to respond, and yes I know my commands could be better. But hey, I thought I was doing well using a command line tool when I came from windows and GUI is all I knew! ^.^
Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to improve on them in the future. - lemur, on 05/19/2009, -0/+6I did some transcoding last year and the best tool I could find for the job was mencoder. Granted, it was excruciatingly awful to learn how to do, but the end result was pretty neat--you can basically do anything with mencoder; it can make all of your wildest [encoding] dreams come true.
- ontain, on 05/19/2009, -1/+7no video needed. just a few command lines. of course a few command lines wouldn't get you frontpage.
- inactive, on 05/19/2009, -0/+5what's this potentially stuff?
That chick WAS hot. - slider121, on 05/19/2009, -0/+5not to get to advanced, but they didn't mention how to deinterlace or ivtc (convert 30fps interlaced to 24fps progessive). I recommend mencoder as it does support ivtc and deinterlace. It works wonders on recordings on my mythbox. Converting a 720p or 1080i tv show into h264 or xvid is easy and looks great.
- buckrogers1965, on 05/19/2009, -0/+5It is ironic that none of my older windows games will run on my XP system, but run just fine under Linux with Wine.
- pinchduck, on 05/19/2009, -2/+7There are harder ways with far more control over the output and easier ways, like handbrake, that are just fire & forget. You are intentionally comparing one of the more intricate (yet controllable) procedures to one of the easier ones. Your point is invalid.
- NixiePixel, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4FYI, I have been posting a regular video segment on linuxhaxor.net for a number of weeks now, so whether it gets dugg on Youtube or on linuxhaxor.net doesn't matter to me, I'm just glad people get to see it, and if it helps a few people, great! If not, I'll try to make a better one next time and incorporate the (constructive) feedback I see here.
- shadowspawn, on 05/19/2009, -0/+4What filter did she use to get the cool red/white washing out of the tutorial vid?
- ATL, on 06/20/2009, -0/+4VLC won't help you save disk space.
- SteveMax, on 05/19/2009, -0/+4Yes, there is. Just not between incompatible lossy formats.
- RoboDonut, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3What is this "sunlight" you speak of?
- tk0680, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3I personally find a CLI faster than almost any GUI app due to simply having less things to wait to load up, but I agree a GUI is almost always faster to get used to.
- RoboDonut, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3Yes there is. Zip or LZMA is lossless because the data you put in is exactly the same as the data you get out. An MD5 or CRC32 hash of the extracted file would match that of the source file. FLAC is lossless in the sense that the audio remains exactly the same, but there might be some metadata from other formats that isn't supported by FLAC.
The error is in the fact that they're using lossy codecs. - IllBeBack, on 05/19/2009, -1/+4Not lossless. Obviously, she doesn't know what she's talking about.
And ffmpeg is available on many platforms, including that evil Windows one.
Buried as inaccurate, but watched for potentially hot chick. - powatom, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3I want something which takes three times as long and is much less reliable!
YEAH! - evilgourmet, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3...and fantastic.
- saranagati, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3so you make a php script on your server to run ffmpeg on the uploaded file and output the resulting conversion.
- LordBalderdash, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
- DeadOhioSky, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Your an idiot. Im a total newb to linux and I just did it in one line, heres the quote:
ffmpeg -i Terminator.The.Sarah.Connor.Chronicles.S02E01.720p.HDTV.x264-
CTU.mkv -target dvd -s 1280x720 episode1.avi
Just because linux offers you all those scary options doesnt mean you actually have to use them - Defiant001, on 05/19/2009, -1/+3Was just about to post this. Has a hole been ripped in the time space continuum?! Time to go back and watch the high quality version..
- NixiePixel, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2This is just semantics - it is as lossless as you can get with conversion and compression, but I understand the response and will try to be more precise in the future.
I did note that it was available cross-platform on my Youtube site, but why would I talk about that on linuxhaxor.net? - directedition, on 05/19/2009, -1/+3I wouldn't say "any". I'm still looking for an OSS tool that will convert my film school DVCPROHD .mov files into a format I can watch without buying a Mac and Final Cut Pro.
- RoloTomasie, on 05/19/2009, -2/+4Just use VLC. It opens EVERYTHING.
Cans included. - brianez21, on 05/19/2009, -1/+3There's a super-simple and very nice/open-source frontend to FFmpeg called "WinFF", which despite the name also runs on Linux (eg. Ubuntu) and Windows (95 thru Vista).
Link for those interested: http://winff.org - archer75, on 05/19/2009, -3/+5windows is a nightmare to convert video? You use one app, any video convertor. Drag, drop, convert. Done. Very easy.
In linux i'd still be typing on the command line while in windows it would be done.
I use this app all the time myself. Visual Hub is a good one for OSX but it's no longer supported. - SniperZero, on 05/20/2009, -1/+3play crysis?
- pentiumii, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2i been using linux for long ass time and have i got pretty use to open terminal do most of any thing
but even i think it pretty lame to use to command line to convert video it alot work for something that only take a min in gui apps
winff is probable the easiest way or what every other app u like
hell i use a windows app in wine my self for coveting video for my meizu m6 works just as good as any linux app or command line
the only beef i have with this video is stab at windows
windows has twice as many apps for converting video and ffmpeg is cross platform and alot the apps use it and all works about the same being based on ffmpeg
i never had any video come out the way she demo on and window machine i been on
if i did it wouldn't be windows fault it either my own lack of understanding of what i was doing or the app i was using be crap neither would be windows fault
but i think read u said u were new to linux or something like that maybe u should quit making video till u know more about what u r doing
- Markpdotcom, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2For the rest of us theres Handbrake and SUPER :)
- jmdsdf, on 05/24/2009, -0/+2Oh yeah, besides ffmpeg, or it's GUI interface winff, make sure to check out Handbrake. http://handbrake.fr/?article=download
- warp99, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2The current version of ffmpeg, that would be 3.0, can decode DVCPROHD files but can't encode them. I know this for a fact since I just decoded some DVCPROHD files using the fmpeg version included with Ubuntu 9.04.
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