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09-12-2005	#1 (permalink)
Javasnob Linux Engineer Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 942	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!

09-12-2005	#2 (permalink)
designbydave Linux Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: California! Posts: 159	mplayer should be able to handle those file types. __________________ Registered Linux User # 392752 • \"pr0n\": An anagram of \"porn,\" possibly indicating the use of pornography.

09-13-2005

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Re: Audio/Video conversion

Quote:

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/

Quote:

Originally Posted by designbydave

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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