Questions tagged [conversion]
Converting from one file format into another. Use a more specific tag if possible depending on your application.
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ProRes4444 with alpha to ProRes422 Fill and Keys [closed]
Does anybody know if there is a way to covert Prores4444 with alpha into 2 Prores422 files like Fill and Key using ffmpeg?
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ffmpeg on Linux - convert video to play on iPhone [solved]
I am converting Hi8 to .mkv, .mp4 or .avi using ffmpeg on Linux (Gentoo).
I am trying to convert small clips to play on an iPhone, iPad (iOS)
The following will convert but it will not play on an ...
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Converting RTF to PDF in LibreOffice changes the margins
When converting from RTF to PDF in LibreOffice, the bottom margin moves up about 3% of the page, leaving 3% more blank space at the bottom of the page. This causes some text to flow onto the next page,...
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What GPU parameters show me what video card have faster convert speed?
I want to crop videos in Avidemux, and I search a cheap used videocard for faster coding. But I can't compare because I don't know what parameters need to be higher or lower for faster video coding.
I ...
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How to convert HLS to UDP on FFmpeg or any other freeware?
What freeware can I use to convert an HLS playlist to a UDP stream? I tried FFmpeg on hls url to udp stream, which worked. I'm trying to find a freeware that can manage to do the same, but with ...
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Converting range of times in any format to hours and minutes
In Excel, I'm looking for a simple way to convert a 24-hour format time range (in various formats) to hours and minutes.
For example, I might have different hour/minute range formats:
9-12 // result ...
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ICO of 32-bit images
Requirement
I'm using this shell script to create an ICO file to fulfill this requirement:
Icons should be Windows .ico files and contain 32-bit images in the following sizes: 16, 24, 32, 48, and 256....
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What is this 14-digit time format from Windows registry?
Microsoft Office 365 saves information in the registry about what time it last searched/downloaded/applied updates in a format like this:
Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\office\ClickToRun\...
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FFMpeg fails with LZW decode failed / invalid block label when converting gif to mp4
I'm using FFmpeg to convert gif into mp4 files. On some gif files I encounter an invalid block label error. The program seems to still output an okay mp4 file but I'd rather it not encounter the error ...
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Debian to VDI or IMG
I have a debian server that I can't really shut down because the company stops.
How can I convert it from physical disk to VirtualBox or Xen without shutting it down?
I don't want to play with the ...
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shrink multi videos into specific time using ffmpeg
I have multiple videos with the different length. And The Desired output of All those video length is 58 seconds only.
Here I tried but don't know what's should i replace here *****
ffmpeg -i video1....
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Convert web page to Word document
It is known that web pages can be downloaded as MHT or HTML files, and then opened in Word.
However, particularly with complex web pages, formatting can be lost, and only the text without much ...
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Where does FFMPEG store temporary files in Linux?
I quit the conversion of a very large file in ffmpeg. The incomplete file is taking up almost 200GB on my disk but it does not exist in the directory I was working in and I can't find it anywhere (it ...
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How can I improve the quality of pixelated text in scanned PDF images and convert it into non-pixelated, high-quality digital text?
I have a scanned PDF document containing images with pixelated text. The OCR process has extracted the text, but it appears low quality and pixelated. I want to convert this pixelated text into a high-...
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Convert external drive space, E, over to my internal, C, drive (or part of it)
Only Q/A on this is several yrs old...hoping things have changed. May as well try.
I want to download a torrent that is too big for my C drive. I bought a 1 T external before finding out about FAT32/...
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Identify supported video file format and convert accordingly
I have a small video advertising device that I want to change the video on.
Inside it has an AK2117 multimedia chip. The documentation states it has a WMA Decoder (bit rate 32-384 Kbps, 8-48KHZ), ...
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how to create a mac operating system pendrive on a chromebook
I'm trying to create a Macosx (pendrive, installer, downloadable file), for a wiped Macbook Air on a Chromebook. Using the base Chromebook operating system, it's rather foreign to me and I do not ...
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GIMP advice on JPG to PDF conversion
When I convert JPG files to PDF using GIMP the result is usually a much bigger file.
The first step upon importing is the dialog for a conversion that is titled "convert to RGB working space"...
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May I know where to buy this adapter and do i need to install a driver to use it? [closed]
May I know where to buy this adapter and do i need to install a driver to use it?
I tried to reply to that post but i'm not allowed to : (
Referenced post - Using an Rj45 to D9 RS232 Adaptor with a ...
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convert excel spreadsheet with format to markdown
I want to convert a spreadsheet table with basic formatting (bold, script) to MD (markdown) format.
I know howto convert a table to Markdown but it losses the basic format and i need to preserve it.
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Convert raw .audio file to .m4a
I have some sound recordings I made but now, it is recovered as .audio file. So, I downloaded Audacity and I'm trying to convert it back to .m4a. But I have no idea what should I put in these fields:
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Decode/Convert FROM monochrome 1-bit bitmap image to png from command line?
Amazing that searching for "convert from monochrome image to png" gives you like a million results for the opposite question. So I'll try asking here:
I have a binary blob, and I know that ...
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ffmpeg - convert pcm audio to ac3 without changing the frame rate?
I have PCM audio which has frame rate of 199.964 FPS (240 SPF). When I convert it to AC3 the frame rate changes to 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF). This causes sync issues and I dont want to convert the video ...
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I'm trying to convert a normal Markdown document to a PDF using pandoc. I'm getting LaTeX errors
Here is the entire markdown:
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title: Calculus hw
author: Jewel
date: April 21, 2023
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> Question 1
$$
f(x) =
\begin{cases}
Asin(x)+Bcos(x) & \text{if } x < 0 \\
x^2+1 & \text{if } ...
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is there a way to convert automatically images files to odt format in linux terminal?
is there a way to convert automatically images files to odt format in linux terminal?
I have eg. 100 jpg or 100 png image files. It may take much time to insert them one by one.
I have found many ...
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convert all ts files in a folder to mp4 with same name
I have a folder with several video files, some .mkv some .ts some .mp4, all different names.
I want to convert all ts files into mp4 files with the same name.
what do I type in the command line to use ...
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Convert html, pdf or .doc format to google doc without breaking formatting
I'm building some documents which need to live online on google docs. I start off by building static html files using Ruby on Rails. These look fine.
Then I convert them to a pdf using wkhtmltopdf. ...
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Is it possible to convert a FDF file to another format, such as image or PDF?
I have an FDF file that immediately forces me to print it when opening in Adobe Acrobat, and if I don't print it, it will automatically close the file. It even detects if I'm trying to print-to-PDF, ...
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Excel - UTC to EST Formula
I have a UTC timestamp that looks like this in Excel:
2022-10-28T18:12:23.603Z
I need the information to appear as 10/28/22 hh:mm:ss AM/PM format but I need it to come out in EST timezone. Right now, ...
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PowerShell script to process audio streams with ffmpeg results in unexpected conversion
So, I've gone down the rabbit hole trying to do recursive conversions with ffmpeg using powershell.
The script is almost doing what i want it to, but not completely.
In this argument, AC3 is converted ...
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Can you convert hdmi to usb for mouse and keyboard?
I recently have been playing around with an Arduino/motor/transistor etc. I got the motor working but the next day I found that all my ports had stopped working completely. The only ports that worked ...
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Exporting Visio drawing to PDF, but the text in the shapes are not searchable in the resulting PDF document
I have a Visio drawing that is comprised of an image that has been imported into Visio, then rectangles are scattered throughout the document; each of these rectangles has a unique piece of text ...
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Why PDF is larger in size in comparison to ePUB? [duplicate]
I don't know a lot about both file formats but when I get a copy of books in each format, almost always PDF is larger than ePUB, with or without images.
for example, quick test shows that if I have ...
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Using pandoc to convert latex into plain text: "unexpected () \begin{document}" error
I want to use pandoc to convert latex into plain text. I try to convert this latex file: https://arxiv.org/e-print/1603.03827
I installed pandoc 2.9.2.1 on Ubuntu 22.04 as follows:
sudo apt-get ...
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Error when try to convert mp4 to png sequence
I always used this code
ffmpeg -i aaa.mp4 frames/out-%05d.png
when sudently it stopped working and giving me this error:
[image2 @ 00000225b1c56c80] Could not open file : frames/out-00001.pnge= -0....
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ffmpeg framemd5 - how do you get the checksums to match between LPCM and FLAC?
I'm converting losslessly compressed video and audio files (Utvideo/LCPM) into the FFV1/FLAC codecs using MKV as a container to save on storage space without compromise in quality. I'm using ffmpeg's ...
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How to convert a text with form 1'234'567.00 into a number in Excel
I would like to convert a text (type 2) with form 1'234'567.00 into a number (type 1) in Excel.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Why doesn't LibreOffice generate identical PDFs on different computers?
I have a batch file in Windows 10 to convert a PDF to a PDF/A using LibreOffice headless command like this:
@echo off
c:
cd "\Program Files\LibreOffice\program"
echo Please wait...
echo [**.....
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Potrace fix number of points
Is there an option to get a fix number of points when converting a bitmap to vector image using potrace ?
I couldn't find any documentation about that
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How do you convert PSF music files to FLAC without using some "online tool"?
I love the soundtrack to the 1997 PlayStation video game Breath of Fire III.
I have its soundtrack as MP3 files on my computer.
After hearing what a huge difference it made to go from MP3 to FLAC for ...
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Is there any hidden danger in re-converting all my FLACs with "-compression_level 12"?
For some time now, I have been upgrading my music library from bad-sounding MP3 files to lossless FLACs. This obviously takes much more storage space.
The 465 GB internal disk which contains my "...
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Lossy to lossless conversion (audio)
I have an mp3 file which i want to convert to a flac. I realise that it wont "improve" the quality rather I want it in a flac format so that when I edit it each time and re encode it, it won'...
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Ffmpeg interpeting conversion error messages
I am trying to decipher the quality of converted videos by inspecting the error output log(s). The log is created by -loglevel error . The video source is from OTA .ts recordings, and the problem is ...
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Ubuntu Server Convert .xls/.xlsx to .csv Date format is being changed libreoffice/gnumeric
issue is: xls/xlsx file contains dates as d-m-Y (12-11-1997), but when i use libreoffice or gnumeric via the terminal to convert to csv, it changes the dates to d/m/Y (12/11/1997), and in some cases Y/...
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MS Word encoding (after conversion)
I have a couple of MS Word docs I want to clean up but don't know what all the encoding means. I'm wondering if there's a list somewhere so I don't have to copy and paste every example.
Here's some of ...
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Pixel Art Gif to Webm
I have a large gif file (100+ MB) and I'd like to convert it to webm to reduce the size of the final file to 10-12 MB. I'm using ffmpeg to do this and it converts the file just fine except the ...
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How to save full webpage as a pdf with images, etc, in a muti page format?
So, I am trying to take my e-portfolio and make a pdf version because my uni is playing hot potatoe with the website keeping my portfolio.
I wanted links preserved as well as documents, but in the end,...
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Convert adobe acrobat PDF to normal PDF
I have a PDF file that can only be opened with Adobe Acrobat DC. When I try to open it with chrome for example I see the message below. How can I convert this PDF file to a normal pdf file so that I ...
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Using matched string of wildcard in a bash command
I want to convert an entire folder of bmp files to png and was just wondering if that would be possible with a one liner in bash or if I need a script for that.
Can I access the string matched by the ...
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Desktop PC with one HDMI and one VGA port
I am considering purchasing a Desktop PC, that has one HDMI port and one VGA port. I have two monitors, both of them support HDMI. Will I be able to purchase VGA (Male) to HDMI converter and use it ...
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