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How to convert .wmv and avi. to .ogg

Asked by Dariel Dato-on

I have some .wmv and .avi files I would like to convert to .ogg.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can to do that?

Thanks!

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Best Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : 		#1

There is a ffmpeg2theora program available in the universe repository. (Theora is the ogg video format.) It's command line, but not hard to use, here you can find some examples: http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/examples.html .

Converting from one compressed format to another may not give best quality.

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Dariel Dato-on (odd-rationale) said : 		#2

Thanks Wrwrwr, that solved my question.

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Oscar Sandoval Torres (oscar.st) said : 		#3

Hi, when I try to use ffmpeg2theora to convert from AVI to OGG, I get this error:

$ ffmpeg2theora vid23_57.avi
Input #0, avi, from 'vid23_57.avi':
  Duration: 00:00:25.0, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 532 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Video: IV50 / 0x30355649, 352x288 [PAR 0:1 DAR 0:1], 4.00 tb(r)
swScaler: Unknown format is not supported as input format
  Resize: 352x288
No video or audio stream found.

I have installed w32codecs, ffmpeg, gstream0-ffmpeg, etc...

Do you know something aboit this error?

Thank you in advance.

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PhoneixS (phoneixsegovia) said : 		#4

You can use OggConvert, that is an Gnome (graphic) application (in the repositories too).