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Story: Movavi Launches Free Online Video Conversion ServiceTotal Replies: 4
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macemoneta

Jul 01, 2007
7:47 PM EDT 		It will take less time to convert locally than it will take to upload/download. Using ffmpeg makes conversions trivially easy. And your ISP won't cap your connection for exceeding a threshold for uploads.
Sander_Marechal

Jul 01, 2007
10:14 PM EDT 		ffmpeg is too complicated for most people. But yeah, this service seems little more than a viral for their paid-for suite. Perhaps someone should create a simple GUI frontend for ffmpeg.
techiem2

Jul 02, 2007
7:15 AM EDT 		I found SUPER (ugly site warning) http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html when I was searching for an easy to use video converter for use in Windows for someone at the college. It's a fairly decent front end to the foss encoders for those poor windows folks.
Sander_Marechal

Jul 02, 2007
9:19 AM EDT 		Yeah, that's a pretty hoprrible site. And I thought the official Whitesnake website was bad (http://www.whitesnake.com if you dare). But at least the Windows users have a front-end. A quick scan around Synaptic reveals no such thing for Linux (at least not prepackaged).
jdixon

Jul 02, 2007
12:48 PM EDT 		> Perhaps someone should create a simple GUI frontend for ffmpeg.

Well, there the konverter frontend for mencoder:

http://www.kraus.tk/projects/konverter/

That sounds like what you're describing.

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