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Converting from .mov files

13/04/09

Permalink 03:52:33 pm, by richard Email , 106 words   English (GB)
Categories: Ubuntu Linux

Converting from .mov files

So you have a bunch of .mov files from your DVD recorder and now you want to do stuff with them. But the DVD authoring software needs .avi files as input.

To convert them is just a command line away :o

mencoder input_file.mov -o output_file.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc

Depending on the size of the input file you may have time for a coffee.

If you do actually have a bunch of files to convert doing one at a time could become tedious see below for a quicker way.

for i in *.mov 
do 
   mencoder ${i} -o ${fi/mov/avi} -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc 
done

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