video conversion software for linux???

[creeping death]

hi ppl!!

i have been using fedora for a few days now...i am a total n00b...i was wondering if anyone could recommend me a good video convertion software...something like total video converter in windows...which could convert form almost any format to any other format...(like from wmv to avi or mp4 or mov)

so can u ppl kindly tell a software for linux to do that and also tell how to install it.

[jtang613]

yum install avidemux

[Dangermouse]

Hi i use winff you can get it here
http://biggmatt.com/winff/

[creeping death]

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

Hi i use winff you can get it here
http://biggmatt.com/winff/

i dont have ffmpeg installed...from where can i get (not only this but all the codecs for free???

[Firewing1]

MediaCoder is windows-only at the moment, but fortunately the author has a Linux version planned and makes sure it runs well in Wine. If you want a Linux-based program, avidemux as jtang613 mentioned is a good choice. You'll need the Livna repo installed.
Note: Avidemux defaults to the Qt4 (KDE) interface, but if you'd prefer to use a GTK (Gnome) interface run:

yum install avidemux-gtk

Firewing1

[creeping death]

Originally Posted by Firewing1

MediaCoder is windows-only at the moment, but fortunately the author has a Linux version planned and makes sure it runs well in Wine. If you want a Linux-based program, avidemux as jtang613 mentioned is a good choice. You'll need the Livna repo installed.
Note: Avidemux defaults to the Qt4 (KDE) interface, but if you'd prefer to use a GTK (Gnome) interface run:

yum install avidemux-gtk

Firewing1

well...thanks!! to u and jtang613...avidemux works really well!! but i was just wondering....whenever totem movie player opens any video file...it says it need to download codecs to play the video...but when i try to download the codecs its asks for money...how do i install the codecs then, ubuntu has all free codec downloads...then why does fedora has codec download for money???

[Dangermouse]

Hi assuming your using f8 pick the dvd option it should install most of the codecs you need
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=171660
then winff should be able to convert most media

[creeping death]

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

Hi assuming your using f8 pick the dvd option it should install most of the codecs you need
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=171660
then winff should be able to convert most media

hi Dangermouse
i downloaded ur script but i still get an error...i will paste the code for u to see.

[root@localhost ]# sh dangermouse
Running Choice Menu...

Retrieving http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe...0-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:adobe-release-i386 ########################################### [100%]
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
kirov 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
ftp://mirror.wbut.ac.in/pub/fedora/l...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 421 There are too many connected users, please try later.
Trying other mirror.
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 10 kB 00:00
adobe-linu: ################################################## 17/17
compiz-fusion 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/linux/upd...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 421 There are too many connected users, please try later.
Trying other mirror.
ftp://mirror.wbut.ac.in/pub/fedora/l...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 421 There are too many connected users, please try later.
Trying other mirror.
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 01:04
ftp://ftp.oss.eznetsols.org/linux/fe...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 01:01
http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedora/upd...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 00:47
ftp://ftp.sfc.wide.ad.jp/pub/Linux/F...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 01:08
http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fed...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 05:30
http://ftp.mirror.tw/pub/fedora/linu...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 00:15
http://allotter.yandex.net/fedora/li...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 01:32
http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/fedora...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2 from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/linux/upd...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 421 There are too many connected users, please try later.
Trying other mirror.
ftp://mirror.wbut.ac.in/pub/fedora/l...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 421 There are too many connected users, please try later.
Trying other mirror.
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 00:09
ftp://ftp.oss.eznetsols.org/linux/fe...ry.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.

what should i do now??

[Hlingler]

Originally Posted by creeping death

what should i do now??

There are too many connected users, please try later.

You have also gotten several metadata-checksum errors. This is not unusual, but you can try to refresh yum's cache and maybe clear some of those errors by first executing (as root user): yum clean all. Then try DM's script again. If you continue to get "too many users connected" errors, then you will probably have to...well, wait until later to try again.

Regards,
V

[Firewing1]

If you want to install the codecs manually, run:

yum install gstreamer-plugins-{good,bad,ugly} libdvd{css,read,nav}

You may also want to replace totem with totem-xine:

rpm -e totem
yum install totem-xine xine-lib-extras-nonfree

Firewing1

[creeping death]

thanks dangermouse and thanks firewing1 installed the gstreamer codecs and also the dvd option and others too...u guys r cool