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kenbanistu · Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 30

Under Wary 5.2 ffconvert's dropdown lists cause my cpu usage to shoot through the roof and my computer becomes very very slow until a selection is made and the list closes, then everything goes back to normal. I don't know if this is a ffconvert problem or a wary problem (I don't have this trouble in puppy 4.3.1) but something somewhere clearly isn't right.

--Ken

rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 04 Nov 2011, 13:44 Post subject:

Run it from the command line and see if it throws up any error messages.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: Japan

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2476 Location: Ontario

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

I finally got around to testing this app out and want to say thanks alot for making this shinobar. I really wanted to have the ability to rip dvds and pipe the stdout directly into ffmpeg without having to rip to the hard drive first. With quite a bit of hacking I was able to add that feature to your script. I used code from pdvdrsab & pcdripper to accomplish this. If you tick the checkbox for "use dvd" vobcopy should find the longest title and add that number to the box to the left. You can change that number if you want to rip a different title on the dvd (most times this will rip the main title). I'm guessing there may be some interest in having that feature so I'll attach the revised script here.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: Japan

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: Japan

You may need to edit the file ~/.config/ffconvert/ffconvert.rc for h.264(MPEG4 AVC) with recent version of ffmpeg. See the top post.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

Hi Shinobar, thanks for making this app, I am running on puppy 5.28. From testing I got these points-

1) running ffconvert from the command line, I also get the error when pressing the preset drop down menu. Also, the message boxes 'loading' do not close - and have to be closed manually.

2) selecting 'WAV audio for CD' preset does not change the audio encoder, which encoder should be used?

3) the 'vorbis' encoder is not recognised by ffmpeg - switching to 'libvorbis' works. does the 'vorbis' option work in any version? if not you could change the preset to 'libvorbis'.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

It seems the simplest command works well to make WAV,

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: Japan

ferro10n · Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 106

shinobar-san,

I've checked and corrected the existing Spanish translation for FFConvert taken from the .po file included in lang_pack_all_0.9.sfs. I also made a Portuguese translation:

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5245 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Hi shinobar. I am working on the Pmusic_Upgrade 002 for Lucid 5.2.8, which replaces the old Multimedia Upgrade. I looked at your configure options and improved my own--it uses ffmpeg 0.8.9.

I was able to convert wmv to mpeg2 by selecting NTSC DVD fullscreen and changing output File Format to mpeg (mpg). Also, I was able to burn wmv to DVD using Pburn 3.4.1. These were the two that you had problems with I think.

I think ffconvert can be a very useful program. If you revise it I suggest possibly including a "Basic" interface that only shows the most popular options--then we could test those all very thoroughly. The Basic interface could include audio to mp3, m4a, flac, ogg and video to mp4, mpeg2, xvid, just for examples.

I got some messages while I was playing around with ffconvert.

1. using the preset MPEG4 Audio I received the following message, and I noticed that there is no m4a in the File Format list.