Re: Making MP4 files?

Adric <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:18:12 -0600
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VLC is very handy for playing and transcoding many formats,

open the file in vlc, go to "media" / "Convert/save" and you should be
able to find what you need there.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jody Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Found it, the world's best kept audio conversion secret:
> http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/
> You have to install a couple hand-fulls of libs, but converting a directory
> of MP3s to M4As was as easy as:
> pacpl --to m4a ~/mp3/audio_adrenaline/Underdog/
> Viola!
> I was stuck on "mp4," but when I broadened the search a little, I found an
> obscure reference to the PACPL site.
> This should make life in this house better. ... it's always the little
> things.
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> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Nate Metheny <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Jody Harris wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a quick and simple way to encode MP4s in Linux?
>>>
>>> My son bought a Nintendo DSi. The DSi will not play MP3 (or OGG), but it
>>> will play MP4. Yipee.
>>
>> Check out ffmpeg. There's releases for multiple platforms.
>>
>> You also might want to check to see what the DSi's playback capabilities
>>  are, as MP4 is a very wide open audio (and video) format.
>>
>>>
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