What's a good program for all purpose converting?
Meaning mp4 to mp3. WMV to flac. etc.
I keep finding programs that can do one type of conversion or only from video to video but I can't find an all purpose one.
I checked the wiki and this is pretty much nonexistent on there.
>>55044465
ffmpeg
>>55044473
How about one that has a GUI?
I've got quite a few I want to do and I would rather not have to type them all out via command line.
>>55044907
There are plenty of GUIs for ffmpeg, any of which you can find with a quick google search. It is the be all and end all of general conversion software.
Also the point of command line software is automation. If you're typing everything out, you're doing it wrong. You don't necessarily have to use the command line version, but you seem to be misinformed.
>>55044963
Maybe you or I misunderstood each other but I've tried a couple of GUI for ffmeg now and they only allow me to go from video format to another video format. Not from video format to audio format which is what I actually need.
I don't know enough about ffmpeg to argue but it seems to only deal with video formats.
>>55044465
If you faggot don't use FFmpeg but some shitty Wonderwiz XY Converter with a GUI you're literally retarded. FFmpeg is incredibly powerful and actually does what it's suppposed to, like copying only the audiostream of a video, cutting it, etc. while the other GUI tools reencode the whole damm thing which results in unnecessary quality loss. Just google "ffmpeg extract audio" you dumbshit.
ffmpeg
gui's are too inflexible for truly all-purpose programs like ffmpeg
>>55045104
those are limitations with the GUIs you used
ffmpeg deals with just about any kind of media (still images, video, audio, subtitles, gifs, etc)
you can indeed extract audio track(s) out of a video file as-is, or converted to another format
>>55044465ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp3
ffmpeg -i input.wmv output.flac
in the most basic form (just letting it use defaults for things like bitrate)
ffmpeg is quite easy to use, and can read/write just about any kind of media
>>55046817
oh yea, ffmpeg can do remuxing as well
so for example, you could do;ffmpeg -i video.wmv -c copy output.wma
to extract the first audio track from a wmv without re-encoding it (no loss in quality, and is also very quick)
>>55044465
>What's a good program for all purpose converting?
> Meaning mp4 to mp3. WMV to flac. etc.
PowerAmp, obviously
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>>55046817
>>55046865
>>55046939
Thanks for the help but you guys are really stuck on using command line which I have no clue how to use and I've got about twenty conversions I want to do.
Frankly it would be faster for me to download them in the proper format than try to learn how to do this and input it a bunch of times.