A GUI for ffmpeg
April 29th, 2009 by Shawn Powers in
How to install WinFF, a graphical user interface for ffmpeg with an unfortunate name.
Download in .ogv format
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Great Tip!
On May 9th, 2009 waparmley says:
I recently tweeted about having trouble mastering ffmpeg and Shawn suggested winff. I occasionally record over-the-air HD programs using a Hauppauge HVR-950 and then burn them to a DVD. Sometimes MythTV can handle the files (3 GB per half hour, by the way!) but sometimes it can not (don't know why). By using ffmpeg I can first transcode those big files to 720x480 ntsc format, which MythTV handles nicely. Winff makes the transcoding step a snap, with just a few clicks, and saves lots of command line typing (such as ffmpeg -i /media/disk/MyVideos/bbt-apr-13.mpg ... and on and on) and trying to remember the path to and name of the input file.
By the way, last month's LJ had a great article on converting 8mm film video to DVD, and included this gem of a link for those wanting to know a bit more about ffmpeg:
http://howto-pages.org/ffmpeg/#basicvideo
(By the way, I got the HVR-950 working thanks to another article in LJ.)
Thanks Shawn and LJ!
Wrong Link?
On April 29th, 2009 FortWorthSquatch (not verified) says:
I think your link points to the wrong video. The one I downloaded talked about "free" instead of winff.
fixed
On April 29th, 2009 Webmistress says:
thanks for pointing it out.
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ffplay
On April 29th, 2009 Philippe Demartin (not verified) says:
Every file who is generated with ffmpeg can be played with "ffplay", who is part of the ffmpeg package
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