winff

*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future release. Please use avconv instead.

this came up when i was using winff to convert files to avi

Hi David,

does the app still work, it does say that it will be removed in the future. Have you tried the other recommended app??.

Regards Wolfman

It still seems to be working
i have tried the other app and i think its a command line one and i don't know command line
winff is one of the apps i use the most and if it goes so does linux ,unless there is an app as easy to use
i have tried others but not up to WINFF

Hi David,

you can try "mmediac" which is a audio/video converter, you must first install the "Getdeb" PPA.

In a terminal:

wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu quantal-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

followed by:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mmediac

"The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter for converting
between popular desktop media formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma),
Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI,
Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv), QuickTime Video (mov) and
commonly used mobile devices/phones formats like AMR audio (amr) and 3GP
video. iPod/iPhone and PSP compatible MP4 video are supported. Moreover,
you can remove and add new formats or devices through the internet.

An integrated YoutTube downloader is available for direct downloading and
converting to any of these formats. You can trim your clips for ringtone
creation or any other purpose and crop your videos for removing up/down black
bars or other unwanted parts of the image. Additionally, embedded subtitles
can be encoded onto the video for watching movies or shows with subtitles on
devices that does not supports them.

The program has a very easy-to-use and simple GUI (Graphical User Interface)
that helps even the most amateur user. Most of the times, the only data that
you must enter is the input file(s) or just drag 'n' drop the input file(s)!
The 3GP and AMR formats are used by mobile phones for MMS,
video and sound recordings, etc.".

You will find it in the menu under Sound & Video as "Mobile Media Converter".

http://www.getdeb.net/welcome/

Regards Wolfman

I have tried MMC and it is very good on some formats but every time i used it to convert from say mp4 to avi it does not do it
that said i may not have had all the correct codecs installed i think it asks for mencoder which i did install but still it did not work as i wanted

Hi David,

install the package "non-free-codecs" and try it out!!. (Medibuntu repo must be active!)

Regards Wolfman