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Old 09-12-2005   #1 (permalink)
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Audio/Video conversion

Hi all, I just made the final switch to Linux, and I have a lot of audio and video files that are unplayable to me. Does anyone know any good software to convert/play any and/or all of the following file types?

.wma, .mpg, .wma, .wav, .m4a

Converters would be preferable to players.

Thanks a ton!
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mplayer should be able to handle those file types.
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Re: Audio/Video conversion

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Originally Posted by Javasnob
Hi all, I just made the final switch to Linux, and I have a lot of audio and video files that are unplayable to me. Does anyone know any good software to convert/play any and/or all of the following file types?

.wma, .mpg, .wma, .wav, .m4a

Converters would be preferable to players.
Many different packages are available for linux.

A couple of good places to start looking are "softpedia" and "freshmeat":
http://linux.softpedia.com/
http://freshmeat.net/

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mplayer should be able to handle those file types.
As "designbydave" pointed out, mplayer is good. It is more than just a "player". It also has an encoder/converter "mencoder" that comes with it, that is very good.
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