I’m sick of people using annoying crapware for “free mp3 conversion” and the like. Does anyone know of any good quality software that is perhaps open source or free? Sort of like how video lan player is a good solution for playing different types of media file. Just need something that can convert really well. … Read more
I’ve a number of downloaded FLV files which I would like to convert to MP4. They are already in the correct format so I am told all I need to do is to remux the video and audio streams into an MP4 container using copy/pass through. I’m on Windows 7 64 bit and already have … Read more
As part of a legal matter, I received a copy of a security video encoded using what appears to be an ‘IMM5’ codec, apparently often used by police. I also received a copy of ‘BackupPlayer’, which can play this video. Note that no media player I have installed, including VLC, is able to play it. … Read more
I’m wondering if anyone has a clean, painless workflow for losslessly transcoding FLAC files to their equivalent ALAC? It’s supposed to be a bit-perfect conversion, meaning it shouldn’t be very hard, but…. it is. Why would I do this? (Before the OS folks eat me alive) Mainly, because an audio app that I use (Serato … Read more
Okay. I’ve got a few ogg files I’ve created using a desktop recording tool. I’ve transcoded them using ffmpeg once (mainly to clip out the beginnings and the ends). Now, I have 3 such files which I want to concatenate into a single .ogv file. I tried using oggCat, it crashed with some kind of … Read more
I would like to compress an MP3 file, and I see a lot of references when searching Google, but it seems like by now someone must have found something easy and that is guaranteed to work. Compressing an MP3 file into a ZIP archive doesn’t compress the file enough, but I am also concerned about … Read more
