I would just like to suggest a couple of tidbits for whoever might need them.
I am using Hardy Heron (KDE 3.5).
I needed to convert windows audio files (f.int. wma) to MP3.
Audacity cannot read wma.
So having used most of this day to prowl around the Internet, I found that the simplest possible solution was just sitting there in the repos (with Adept!) as a KDE GUI no less:
Install lame with Adept
Install soundkonverter with Adept
And there you go, a nice little graphical application you can pick from the menu. Should cope with most common codecs.
I also needed to transcode a podcasted M4V-file to AVI, so that I could play it on my non-iPod multimedia/MP3 player.
Most video transcoders are DVD rippers, it seems, and I was unable to make them accept single files from my hard disk.
Transcode is apparently a powerful tool, but learning to use it appears to be quite a large cup of tea. Mencoder uses transcode, but is also quite an enormous cup of tea - you have to know the ins and outs of audio/video containers, which I don't.
But I found this nice command line to use in Konsole:
mencoder <input_movie> -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -o <output_movie>.avi
which works like a piece of cake, assuming you have installed mencoder and its dependencies (using Adept). Don't ask me what -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -o means, but it outputs exactly the file I give it, as an avi-file, a wee bit larger than the original file, but that is because AVI generally takes just that much more space.
And, oh yes, I almost forgot: You will need to have the codecs from medibuntu installed.
In general I found this guide very helpful:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683
I am using Hardy Heron (KDE 3.5).
I needed to convert windows audio files (f.int. wma) to MP3.
Audacity cannot read wma.
So having used most of this day to prowl around the Internet, I found that the simplest possible solution was just sitting there in the repos (with Adept!) as a KDE GUI no less:
Install lame with Adept
Install soundkonverter with Adept
And there you go, a nice little graphical application you can pick from the menu. Should cope with most common codecs.
I also needed to transcode a podcasted M4V-file to AVI, so that I could play it on my non-iPod multimedia/MP3 player.
Most video transcoders are DVD rippers, it seems, and I was unable to make them accept single files from my hard disk.
Transcode is apparently a powerful tool, but learning to use it appears to be quite a large cup of tea. Mencoder uses transcode, but is also quite an enormous cup of tea - you have to know the ins and outs of audio/video containers, which I don't.
But I found this nice command line to use in Konsole:
mencoder <input_movie> -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -o <output_movie>.avi
which works like a piece of cake, assuming you have installed mencoder and its dependencies (using Adept). Don't ask me what -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -o means, but it outputs exactly the file I give it, as an avi-file, a wee bit larger than the original file, but that is because AVI generally takes just that much more space.
And, oh yes, I almost forgot: You will need to have the codecs from medibuntu installed.
In general I found this guide very helpful:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683
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