Is anyone aware of any software for Gentoo to allow the conversion of .wmv files to MPEG?
Basically what I'd really like is something like the virtualdub (www.virtualdub.com) software available for Windows so that I can convert between various video formats.
Cheers
Jamie
Some of the tools involved in doing what you need:
mencoder (part of mplayer package) transcode (emerge transcode)
mencoder specifically is used to convert from "weird" formats (like .asf, wmv, and .mov) to .avi, and thereafter you can use transcode to demux/convert the .avis to other formats (like mpg, if you want to burn the files to a (S)VCD or DVD, or change their encoding (convert from/to PAL standards from/to NTSC standards, for example, for use on a cheap standalone player like mine, which doesn't have progressive scan).
These are command-line programs, but I find them ultimately easier to use than the front-ends available (but it helps to know something about video encoding, which I don't, so that might be the problem as well).
dvd::RIP (transcode frontend for ripping DVDs) avidemux (transcode frontend for demuxing *.avis) konverter (KDE mencoder front end)
There are more, many of which are referred to (along with many other useful tips) in the invaluable forum thread here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709&start=0
Also, iirc, VirtualDub does run under Wine. TMPGEnc definitely does, so maybe that would be easier for you.
HTH, Holly
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