The video-conversion tag covers software & formats related to converting videos from one format or container to the other.
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Is there a tool which can resume video conversion?
I'm using Handbrake for converting and resizing my video files, but other users come and close my video conversion process. There is no resume facility in the software.
Because of this, I just have ...
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Can MP4s be 480p?
If I’m not mistaken, as a container format, MP4 videos should be able to contain videos that are 480p. Also, from what I am able to find, the MPEG-4 video format does not have a limitation that ...
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How can I mix two movies together before I handbrake them?
How can I mix two movies together before I handbrake them?
I've got a two part movie on my disk as a pair of VideoTS folders. I want to generate one output movie. I plan on using handbrake to do the ...
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How to simply remove subtitles and languages with handbrake?
I use Handbrake to transcode some of my MPEG-2 Transport Stream videos, but I'm not pleased with the resulting quality, even if set high bitrates.
So my idea is to simply remove unwanted audio tracks ...
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Scaling Up Streaming Videos
There is a video I downloaded while watching YouTube.
I would like to convert it to an AVI, then burn it to a DVD so I can watch it on a big screen TV.
I noticed that when I go to full screen mode, ...
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1080p to 720p converter that converts very fast
Any ideas about a good 1080p to 720p converter that is able to convert a video of 90 minutes in less than several hours? (maybe like in 2, 3 or 4 hours ;-)
The compression of a file is H.264/MPEG-4 ...
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MP4 video from Android phone can't be played in Windows
I took a video on my Samsung Galaxy S2 (Android), it's about 3GB and it can be played on the phone. But after transferring it to the PC is does not play when opened with VLC, QuickTime, Windows Media ...
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.vob to h.264 MP4 Files - Worth The Effort?
When I was doing the converting to digital format a while back I chose .VOB due to no quality loss. However recently I have been informed of this h.264 compression method.
Time is not an issue here, ...
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Can I transcode a video if I have an application that can play it?
My condo complex was burglarized last week and I've been tasked with retrieving the video from our security system to provide to law enforcement. The system is an older DVR (DiViS DVR - warning: PDF ...
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How to reduce the size of a video recorded with Camstudio for uploading to YouTube? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reduce the size of a huge MP4 video?
I have recorded a less than 1 minute video using Camstudio, and it yielded a 600MB AVI file.
What is the simplest way for ...
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How do I convert Quicktime to Windows Media Video?
How do I convert a Quicktime file to a Windows Media Video file on Windows 7?
What is the cheapest method?
What is the the best method, regardless of cost?
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Is there any better idea to reverse a video and save it with and without voice? [closed]
What kind of programming language we have to use for this process or any free softwares are available ?
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Sound out of sync after merging multiple mp4 files with Avidemux
I am trying to join (merge) two or more .mp4 files together, without re-encoding.
Here is what I did:
Started Avidemux 2.5.5.
With File->Open, selected Input1.mp4.
I received this message - "H.264 ...
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What width and height is 580p resolution?
I am trying to convert mp4 and avi files to a lower resultion so they will play on my DVD player via the USB port. The USB port appears to support a maximum resolution of 580p.
What width and height ...
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A .mp4 converter with command line support?
I would like to find an application that I can use to convert any video format in .mpv4 or .ogg from the command line.
I don't mind it cost money as long it worth it.
Which one would you recommend?
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I need to convert .flv to .avi on OS X
It seems isquint has been discontinued and my God is it hard to find a piece of free video converting software that works. Are there any good free options? Or something under 10 bucks?
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How do I convert WTV (and DVR-MS) files into a smaller standard format?
The external hard drive on my HTPC is almost full and so I'm going to need to convert a large number of the films recorded from the television (in WTV format) into something smaller. At present, a 2 ...
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Why do video hosting sites take such an atrocious time processing videos? [closed]
Okay, I understand why conversion of video formats would be slow at home. But surely sites such as Vimeo can afford custom hardware to do the encoding? I mean at least using GPU computation, and ...
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AVS Video Converter: Frame Size stuck at 848
I am trying to follow Youtube's recommended frame size for 480p which is 854x480 (more info here)
Now using AVS Video Converter, when I try to change the width to 854, it keeps going back to 848.
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What tools should I use to edit H.264 MP4 GoPro videos?
I have recorded videos using a GoPro, which produces MP4 files containing H.264 encoded videos.
I would like to do some simple editing tasks on these videos without losing quality:-
Cut various ...
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Downloading latest stable release of Avidemux?
I would like to try some simple video editing (joining/cutting videos etc.) with Avidemux.
Could you please advise what is the latest release (non-beta version), and where to download it?
The reason ...
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Choosing audio track with hamster video converter
How do I choose which audio track to include when converting video using hamster?
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How can I avoid a few seconds of blank video when using -vcodec copy?
I'm processing user-uploaded videos on a CentOS web server with ffmpeg. I need to convert each video to a standard size and format, then extract a 30-second sample clip from each video. I want to use ...
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Software to transfer video to dvd in real time - Windows 7 x64
I have a bunch of Digital 8 tapes that I want to transfer to DVD so I can get rid of this Digital 8 camcorder.
Can someone recommend some software (free or commercial) to help do the job. I've done ...
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Most compatible video/audio format for Mac+PC (including legacy machines)?
We're a small non-profit and we're authoring some data DVDs with some instructional videos on them (mostly Powerpoint and video screen captures).
Some of our users may be computer novices, others may ...
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Converting images to video using FFMPEG on Windows
I'm trying to convert a series of JPEG images into a time lapse video. They're in the format IMGP0001.JPG, IMGP0002.JPG, etc. From the looks of things, this should match the pattern IMGP%04.JPG.
I've ...
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How can I crop a 16:9 video to 4:3, cutting off the edges?
I've got a 720p video, that contains a picture that's only 4:3, so the edges left and right stay empty/black.
I want to cut of the left and right so that video is 4:3. How do I do this in Windows?
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What is mencoder's -speed option doing?
I need to change the playback speed of a video, but can't use mencoder to do it. Changing the speed that a video plays at seems like the sort've thing that any video encoding software should be able ...
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YouTube shows Doubled/Incorrect video length
Just before an hour i screen captured and encoded a video (using Microsoft Expression 4) and then cropped that video using Format Factory and later uploaded on YouTube (.mp4) format.
Original video ...
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How to convert a video for a Samsung Tablet on OS X or Unix
I have different kinds of files, mostly MKV and MP4. They are in 720p (ca. 1280x800).
As far as I know, video for this my Samsung tablet should be 1024x768 maximum. It should also use the h.264 AVC ...
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Can VLC crop black borders on the fly?
http://www.onlinetvrecorder.com/ offers free TV recordings, and AviDemux can cut out the commercial breaks without requiring recoding. However, many recordings have black bars either on top and bottom ...
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How do I convert an iPhone 720p video into a similar quality Flash video using ffmpeg?
What are the proper arguments to ffmpeg to covert an iPhone4 720p video into a similar quality Flash video?
I tried the following which resulted in a low quality Flash video:
ffmpeg -i movie.mov ...
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How do I download this Flash video with tools that don't have spyware?
I'm trying to download this video, but every online tool and offline tool either doesn't work (FlashGot, videodl.org) or is obviously malware. Is there a free tool that I can use that will work? The ...
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Strange error when trying to convert video from 3GP in Handbrake
I've tried converting a video from 3GP in Handbrake on multiple machines and get the same error (one Win 7 x64, the other XP x86). The version is 0.9.5. Whenever I drag in a 3GP off my phone and into ...
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How to get GIF from MKV interval?
I'm looking for a piece of software (free or not) that will allow me to load a .mkv video (and other video types, not just .avi), and tell it to extract frames as images from within a certain ...
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Recursively Convert Directory of Videos into Xvid
I have a large directory full of video files in various codecs.
I need to get these converted into Xvid so they can be played by an Xbox 360. I have been using Auto Gordian Knot to do so one at a ...
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Does a GPU-Based video converter exist beyond Badaboom and Avivo?
I've been looking for one for a long time and I've found Badaboom to be incredibly bad and Avivo not to be able to run on my GPU (I have an nVidia GPU).
Does anybody know of any other solutions?
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One-liner to make video DVD-player-compatible
I have lots of movies in avi format. Some of them are not compatible with my DVD-player.
Is there a one-liner for mencoder or ffmpeg - to do just minimal conversion to make the videos ...
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Video encoding for mobile: How do I choose FPS and bit rate?
I'm going to encode a video from DVD to mobile supported format (mp4, flv, H.263). For a 320x240 screen if I choose around 600 kb/s, how would I know FPS that I want? How is the bitrate is related to ...
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Is BRRip/BDRip true HD? [closed]
I never understood what is the difference between BRRip & BDRip?
BRRip / BDRip video files is HD (or true HD)?
Why some BRRip/BDRip legal videos have different resolutions, for example:
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How do I get old footage off an old (tape-based) video camera?
I am wondering what cheap ways there are for getting old footage of a old video camera (that uses tape) onto my computer?
The camera does not have FireWire or anything like that, just the video ...
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Is there a cheap option for restreaming from an MJPEG IP camera in Flash format?
We're working with Axis brand cameras and media encoders (1 camera, 1 encoder) that are outputting MJPEG format video to our web server. We then need to show these streams on a website. Clients will ...
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change mp4 `ftyp` from `isom` to `mp42`
Will I be able to change the ftyp of an mp4 file?
I have two mp4 files and placed it unto media info to see what is the difference. The other mp4 plays on my sansa fuze device while the other does ...
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changing video format profile (Baseline@L2.0) in handbrake?
Is it possible to change video format profile for handbreak? I need Baseline@L2.0 for my MP4 video format profile or could you recommend other converter like handbreak with lots of configurable ...
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Downloading, Re-encoding, and Joining YouTube Videos
I've downloaded a set of Youtube Videos that are part of the same episode. Currently I've tried converting them into mp4 using ffmpeg and then joining with MP4Box.
for f in *.flv; do ffmpeg -i "$f" ...
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Mencoder doesn't work right in OSX anymore
The following works correctly in Linux. However when I try the same thing on the same files in OSX, the subtitles aren't showing.
mencoder video.mp4 -vf pp=de,scale=1280:720 \
-oac pcm -o ...
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Converting SWF to WMV
I've been searching on the web for tools (online and desktop) to convert SWF files to WMV. We don't have the original FLA files anymore, and these SWF contain how-to software instructions.
Some ...
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What software do you use to encode movies below 700mb in the MKV format?
What software do you use for encoding video files. Probably with the following specifications:
Format : Matroska
File size : around 300 to 600 mb
Duration : 1h 30m~
Video
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What is the best input format for ffmpeg?
My company takes in video files from film makers and compresses them via ffmpeg for streaming over the internet. Ffmpeg supports many video formats, but doesn't support some (e.g. Apple ProRes).
Is ...
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Software that can take a whole folder of videos and rip the audio into mp3 format with just one click?
I know there's literally thousands of programs that let you rip mp3 audio from videos that you've downloaded, but I want one that will let me give it a list of 50+ files to convert, let me walk away ...
