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any 3GP/MP4 converters for linux?

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mehulved Original post #1
Aug 6, 2006 at 9:33 PM
Anyone know of some 3gp/mp4 video converter for linux? I have searched a lot on google but found nothing.
I would prefer a native application, not one running on wine
EDIT: preferably an free/open source application.
JGuru
JGuru #2
Aug 6, 2006 at 9:48 PM
@Tech_your_future, I will do some searching & tell you. Please wait.
eddie
eddie #3
Aug 7, 2006 at 1:22 AM
I don't know which Distro you are using but I can use FFMPEG to convert from one format to another and that includes 3gp/MP4. Have a look at it...
JGuru
JGuru #4
Aug 7, 2006 at 11:31 AM
Yeah, FFmpeg does the Audio/Video conversion. It's Open-source.
Get it from here: *sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg/
M
Aug 7, 2006 at 11:34 AM
Yeah I am trying out ffmpeg. Besides I found a perl script for converting to 3GP videos. Here's the download link from softpedia *linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/3gp-movie-wizard-Download-9764.html.
It is still giving me problems. Let me try for a while more and see if I can sort it out.
JGuru
JGuru #6
Aug 7, 2006 at 12:02 PM
Also use Xamoz Video Converter. It's the GUI frontend for FFmpeg.
It gives users an easy to use GUI interface. Get it from here:
*sourceforge.net/projects/xamoz
M
Aug 8, 2006 at 12:13 AM
ffmpeg is really great. Does work great for now. Just need some more understanding of all the parameters. Some hit and miss trials will give me more ideas.
For right now, I downloaded ffmpeg svn, as Ubuntu's ffmpeg didn't have amr support, which is needed for 3gp.
For 3 gp support, have a look at
*www.rezsoft.org/3gp/ - it has a nice script.
and this thread *lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2006-July/003509.html
Another link that helped me *vardhman.blogspot.com/2005/05/video-encoding-from-frames-in-linux.html

BTW, JGuru, Xamoz can't be found.
JGuru
JGuru #8
Aug 8, 2006 at 12:15 PM
Sorry @Tech_your_future. The Xamoz project is in pre-Alpha stage!!
Why the SourceForge guys have given the download link!!
You can try MediaCoder, an excellent Audio/Video batch converter tool.
Get it from here: *sourceforge.net/projects/mediacoder/
Download the 'Full' version with 'Extra plugins'. This one works!! I checked it.
MediaCoder works only in Windows O.S!!
Screenshot:
*sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=79268
M
Aug 8, 2006 at 2:41 PM
Then Media Coder's of no use to me. I need something that works in Linux. And ffmpeg works quite nice. And the myth3gp script is really good, if you feel lazy enough.

Some related projects can be found here *www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html

List of some projects that use ffmpeg *swik.net/ffmpeg/Projects+that+use+ffmpeg
JGuru
JGuru #10
Aug 9, 2006 at 12:09 PM
That last link Swik.net was good. They are on-going projects.Hopefully they should be
available in around 6 to 8 months time.
mAYHEM
mAYHEM #11
Aug 9, 2006 at 9:06 PM
Use ffmpeg and mencoder with K2.3gp *www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29220
U can also use mencoder using frontends mentioned at mplayer website or using script.