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How can I make the following conversion in VLC from the commandline?
I find the command line documentation a little overwhelming, given that I know almost nothing about codecs and the like...
So the following is exactly what I'm doing in VLC (1.1.11) and it would be ...
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Batch producing PDFs from a sequence of URLs/multiple URLs
Does anyone know of a way of making PDFs from a sequence of URLS/multiple URLs for webpages? For example, I want to print individual PDFs from a batch of webpages via their URLs. Is there an ...
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Single drive to RAID 1, RAID 1 to single drive, existing drive to new RAID 1 array [closed]
Lets imagine three situations:
1)You have two hard drives in your PC. Drive A contains Windows installation and other files. Drive B is an empty drive. Your Motherboard supports RAID 1(additionally 0 ...
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How to convert mounted filesystem between codepages?
I have an external drive formatted in ext3 (basically) that previously was connected to a Linksys NLSU2 NAS device. Now the NSLU2 is broken and I have struggled to restore the files on the disk ...
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How to use pandoc to convert a block of text in Emacs from Markdown to Wiki text?
How to use an external program such as pandoc to convert a block of text in Emacs from Markdown to Wiki text (as used by Mediawiki), and substitute the content in situ?
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x264 encoding speed, what should my expectations be?
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) on an HP Pavillion dv3 with core2duo 2.29 GHz, NVidia Geforce G105M (512MB) with CUDA and 4GB RAM. I have the latest versions of ffmpeg and x264.
I recognise that ...
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How to convert a photo without losing quality?
I have to convert a bmp into another standard format, without losing quality. To which format shall I convert it to?
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Convert Mathematica to PDF via command line
I am on Linux and would like to convert a bunch of Mathematica 8 Notebooks to PDF.
Is there some way to convert them on the command line? I'd like to write a makefile rule for the conversion, so that ...
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How do I convert an SVG to a PDF on Linux
How do I convert and SVG (containing a a few words of latin text and some simple vector graphics) to a PDF on Linux?
I tried Inkscape 0.47 on Ubuntu Lucid, but it moves some sub-graphics randomly, ...
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What causes 3 special characters after conversion to UTF-8?
One of our work steps involves saving an MS Excel worksheet as CSV and then using UltraEdit to convert the CSV to UTF-8 before importing it into a server system.
The problem is that, after the ...
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Free DJVU to PDF converter on that does not make a gigantic PDF
The answers to this question are not satisfactory for me, since they either make a gigantic PDF and/or cost money.
Either Windows or Linux is fine.
If this is a hard/impossible software problem for ...
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Batch convert AppleWorks files into PDF within originating folder, delete original file?
Probably AppleScript is the way to go with this - I have found scripts online that do this, but snag on oversize printable area and put files in the same folder - I need files to stay in the folder ...
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Can I e-mail as WAV file and get back a MP3 file? [closed]
Is there a service where I could e-mail as WAV file and get it back a MP3 file?
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How to install Uniconverter (command-line app) on Mac OS 10.7.2 (Lion)?
Uniconverter is a command-line tool that shares code with the sK1 Project. it's used to convert from one type of vector graphic file to another like this:
uniconverter before.eps after.svg
I'm ...
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CMYK conversion from RGB
I have several RGB images that I have to convert to CMYK for a paper submission. I have a Photoshop Elements 9 license but it doesn't support CMYK.
I remember having tried with ImageMagick on Linux ...
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How to burn an MKV file with subtitles to DVD?
I have a DVD disc with an mkv file and the corresponding subtitles (.srt)
If I insert the DVD in a PC, all works ok.
But if I insert the DVD in a regular DVD player, I see invalid disk.
How should ...
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FFMPEG converting from m4v to mp4 does not stop processing
I'm using ffmpeg to convert various types of video files into mp4s.
The command I use works for most video files I've encountered, however when it encounters an m4v it never stops processing the ...
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Unattented conversion of PowerPoint presentations to video files
I want to be able to convert ppt to video files automatically, without user interaction on Windows. Like convert_ppt_to_video qqq.pptx --screen-size 1024x768 -o qqq.mkv.
How it's better to attain ...
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Using convert to covert multiple jpg files to pdf - pdf quality
I used the command
convert *.jpg out.pdf
to convert multiple jpg files to pdf. But the quality of the output pdf is very low. Is there a way I can increase the quality?
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ffmpeg or mencoder - Convert a video using another one as a reference format-wise
I have two videos from different sources.
I want to convert one of them so that its format, codec, framerate are the same as the other one.
Is there a one-liner for it (where I can give the ...
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Power a 12V DC camera up to 3 hours w/out external power (aside from a laptop)
I have a mobile "platter" that includes a laptop and two cameras that should be able to be light enough to be carried to meetings and be able to self-sustaining without being plugged into anything not ...
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Memory Issue using OO (soffice) as batch conversion service
I have a Java Web Application that uses an OOo instance (on the same environment) started in headless mode as batch converter.
environment is RHEL 5.5.
The OpenOffice version is 3.1.
I've run some ...
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Handbrake is slow at converting audio
My conversion in Handbrake is taking forever (over 24hrs). The video conversion is done in a few minutes, but then I get miles of this over and over again:
sync: adding 102 ms of silence to audio ...
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Convert HTML Website to OSX .app
I've just made a website using nothing but HTML, css & js all offline nothing fancy, and I was wondering how I could convert it into a standalone Mac OS X application?
I know you can get PhoneGap ...
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Software recommendation to convert DOCX files to PDF on CentOS 5
I have a some DOCX files I want to convert to PDF. Is there a way to do this using CentOS 5.7 x64?
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Convert .ppt to Word - with proper headings, font-sizes and page-sizes
Good evening,
How do I convert a PPT to .docx [or .odt, or something!], in such a way as it will downsize all size all the text to "normal" font-sizes and page-sizes?
Thanks for all suggestions,
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How to open avi / wmv files in Quicktime (Windows)
I want to add a couple of movies in wmv / avi format to my itunes library. I plan to use QuickTime to create a reference movie which can be read by itunes. But for that i need to be able to open these ...
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Markdown to LaTeX conversion with a custom preamble using Pandoc
I know that I can use the -H or --include-in-header commands to include a custom preamble in the generated output. The problem is now that Pandoc includes my preamble but puts another preamble in ...
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Command Line Linux Any Document Format to PDF Converter? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I convert this filetype to pdf?
I am looking for tool to (similar to ooffice) convert to pdf. I know where from .odt can be converted to pdf. How about .doc or ...
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Richtext enabled software that can save in a markdown
How can I copy text from a webpage (ex. this one) and use it to answer a question on SuperUser while retaining formatting?
What software can act as an intermediary to convert a document (MS word ...
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How to convert decimal years into a date (format dd-mmm-yyyy or similar) in either Excel or SPSS?
I've found a fair number of formulas online which let me convert birthdate into decimal age in years but I can't find something that converts, for instance, 1.0 into 04-Nov-2011.
Any help would be ...
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Can Gimp or convert generate an image for each layer in a .xcf file?
Given a .xcf file (a Gimp format file), how can I save a file for each layer. I think it could be achieved with Gimp itself or convert.
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How to save in an Adobe Illustrator or Corel compatible format from Fireworks
I have the original image in fireworks.
I have been asked to send a vectorized image that will be opened either from Adobe Illustrator or Corel.
Any of the two will work.
So my questions is, are ...
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Is there any way to change USB to COM converters port number?
I have laptop PC with no Serial Port (COM port). Trying to get work this device (BTW: this device works on PC's with built-in COM port) I'm using USB to COM converter for connecting this device to ...
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JPG files are too small when converted from PDF with imagemagick
I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 with imagemagick. I used this command:
convert myfile.pdf -density 300 file.jpg
This works well, but the JPGs are only about an inch high. How can I preserve the paper size in ...
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Why noises appeared when convert 16bit wav to 8 bit wav, how to avoid it?
We have some 16bit/8000HZ/Mono/PCM .wav files, we need to convert to 8bit to use in our telephone system.
But after conversion, we found there're many noise appeared in the 8bit .wav files even if ...
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How to downmix stereo output to mono on Mac OS X
Let's just open and close this:
Is there a built in way to downmix all stereo output to mono on Mac OS X?
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DJVU to PDF conversion application
Which program can convert a book from DJVU to PDF format. Please advise one's you have tried yourself.
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Encoding MKV to DVD with ffmpeg
I'm trying to convert the file type of a movie file so I could burn it on a DVD disc.
Here's the command and output:
$ ffmpeg -i "/path/to/movie.mkv" -target dvd "movie.mkv"
FFmpeg version ...
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Tool to download all rss feed to PDF file
I want to download rss feed of a blog to a single pdf file, the rss feed contains full content.
Is there any software preferable (free) that can do the job?
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Converting font families w\Fontforge
I'm using Fontforge to convert some fonts to Truetype. However, when installed, not all variants of the converted fonts appear in Photoshop; generally only Bold and Italic variants show up. (Usually ...
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How can we convert old ClarisWorks/Appleworks files to Word/RTF/Plain Text?
We've got about 20 old ClarisWorks/Appleworks files created in 1995 we'd like to convert to something readable on a PC, such as Word, RTF, or even plain text.
I've tried opening them in Pages, but ...
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Convert JPEG image to MPEG-2 Video
I am working on a digital screen unit which has a 2-3 second delay with still images, but no delay for MPEG-2 video. I have used Photoshop CS5 to export the JPEG into MPEG-2 (MP4(ISMA)), but the ...
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Alternative to onlinefontconverter.com for converting EOT to other formats?
I have an EOT file someone provided me for a project, he says he has no other format. I don't even know what it looks like. I'd like to convert to TTF, OTF, or anything else. But it looks like the ...
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How can we stop the Excel 2003 .xlsx converter from setting ownership/permissions precluding network access?
The Excel 2003 converter (to/from Office 2007 format) is changing file ownership or permissions on a Windows XP Home system when saving .xlsx files and preventing access to them from the network.
We ...
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Converting “in place” a column of cells from minutes to hours and minutes in Excel
I have several columns of data in an Excel 2010 worksheet that are values in minutes and I want to convert them to hours and minutes (the data source will only generate an Excel workbook using ...
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Where should DVI signal be converted?
I recently read that the only difference between DVI and VGA is that DVI is digital whereas VGA is an analog signal. This means it might gain noise along the way or if the cable is cheap. I currently ...
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Batch XLS to CSV Converter
Using Windows, I need a script to convert all the (xls) files of a directory to csv.
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(Batch) convert a BMP to a PNG with transparency
I have +- 500 .bmp's that I would like to convert to .png's. It would be especially nice if the color white (#FFFFFF) of the original BMP's could be converted to transparent in the .png's.
PNG-8 is ...
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Convert EMF to PDF (vector)
is there a Windows program that is able to convert EMF files to PDF while preserving the vector character of the image?
On Windows XP I always used the Image and Fax viewer (which is the best EMF ...
