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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Looking for a command line tool that converts a .wmv file into .mpg Post 302315211 by SilversleevesX on Monday 11th of May 2009 10:55:13 PM

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FFMpeg must have improved since I used it last.

Unless they've changed something since I've used ffmpegX, it seemed a little iffy with the WMV format. I recall it usually losing the audio stream or squinching the video track or something along those lines. The Flip4Mac route is probably best, though for full conversion you have to shell out a little $$, as it is the Microsoft endorsed, approved and maintained means of viewing and manipulating WMV in Mac OS X.

Not too long ago there was VirtualHub by Techspansion, but neither of those are any longer with us. VH did a pretty good job of converting WMV to MPG; there were only a few I ever used it on that it had problems with, and I suspect this was because they were encoded in a version of the wmv codec too new (or too weird) for the ffmpeg, mencoder and other core utils it used behind the GUI to do the job.

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libvalhalla-test

LIBVALHALLA-TEST(1)					      General Commands Manual					       LIBVALHALLA-TEST(1)

NAME

       libvalhalla-test - a test media indexing utility which uses libvalhalla

SYNOPSIS

       libvalhalla-test [options ...] paths ...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the libvalhalla-test command.

       libvalhalla-test is a command-line media indexing tool which uses libvalhalla. It is mainly used to test and exercise libvalhalla capabili-
       ties.

OPTIONS

       -h --help
	      this help

       -v --verbose
	      increase verbosity

       -l --loop
	      number of loops

       -t --timewait
	      time to wait between loops [sec]

       -e --delay
	      delay before the scanning begins [sec]

       -m --timelimit
	      time limit [ms] for the scanning

       -a --priority
	      priority for the threads

       -d --database
	      path for the database

       -f --download
	      path for the downloader destination

       -c --commit-int
	      commits interval

       -p --parser
	      number of parsers

       -n --decrap
	      enable decrapifier (for title metadata)

       -k --keyword
	      keyword for the decrapifier

       -s --suffix
	      file suffix (extension)

       -g --grabber
	      grabber to be used

   Example:
	      libvalhalla-test -l 2 -t 5 -d ./mydb.db -p 1 -a 15 -s ogg -s mp3 /home/foobar/music

       Default values are:

	      loop=1, timewait=0, database=./valhalla.db, commit-int=128, parser=2, priority=19,

	      suffix=flac,m4a,mp3,ogg, wav,wma,avi,mkv,mov,mpg,wmv, bmp,gif,jpeg,jpg,png,tga,tif,tiff

AUTHOR

       libvalhalla was written by Mathieu Schroeter <mathieu.schroeter@gamesover.ch>, Benjamin Zores  <ben@geexbox.org>,  Fabien  Brisset  <fbris-
       set@gmail.com> and Davide Cavalca <davide@geexbox.org>.

       This manual page was written by Davide Cavalca <davide@geexbox.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								    10/12/2009						       LIBVALHALLA-TEST(1)