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MS Word encoding (after conversion)

I have a couple of MS Word docs I want to clean up but don't know what all the encoding means. I'm wondering if there's a list somewhere so I don't have to copy and paste every example. Here's some of ...
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How to convert this file into PNG

I have a file with no extension (as far as I can tell) that consists of special symbols. (File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h9MuUDfDtGEneEzZMNKLKWwY7JjZlBTS/view?usp=sharing) Here're a couple of ...
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How can I convert a DavkaWriter hebrew document to Word?

I have a DavkaWriter .doc file from 20 years ago. When it opens in Word it looks like this This text should be לא תרצח לא תנאף Does any one have any way of converting this? (I do not have access to a ...
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Symbols are lost after conversion from UTF-8 to ISO8859-1 and back to UTF-8

I have a file with properties in French. I would like to convert it to ISO8859-1. But after conversion, some symbols are lost. What is wrong? > cat fr.properties VAR2="élément n’a" > cat fr....
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In ffmpeg, how to delay only the audio of a .mp4 video without converting the audio?

In my .mp4 file the audio delay is -3840 ms. I synced it in KMplayer, and I don't want to use MKVGUI to make a .mkv file. I just need to delay the audio by 3840 ms, everything else should be left ...
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Batch convert to UTF-8 a directory having both UTF-8 and CP-1251 files

I have a directory containing files, some of them are UTF-8, some are CP-1251. I want to convert the ones that are CP-1251 to be UTF-8, but without corrupting the UTF-8 files. I tried using iconv -f ...
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Convert .txt. file from windows-1251 to utf-8

I'm trying to read the cyrillic text that is stored in .txt format. Once I open it with OpenOffice, it is OK. Once I open it with Notepad++, it shows unreadable symbols. Setting Windows-1251 prior ...
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How do I convert many text files from <some_encoding> to utf8-no-bom?

I'm looking to convert lots of text files (40+) from ISO-Latin-1 to UTF8-no-bom. How can I accomplish this?
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Can't handle convmv

Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 Codename: oneiric I have a lot of folders and files with ??? ???? ??.txt - like file names when I do $ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/some/...
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How do I slow down a video generating new interpolated frames?

I've used mencoder's speed parameter to generate a video which is played at half the speed. This basically means halving the framerate of the video. But I'm interested in software that could convert a ...
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Question on video merging and converting(wmv to avi)

I have downloaded some clips from the net that were split into several files. There are 8 files and they are exactly 130 MB in total. There are 8 files in .WMV format 130 MB in total Now I use ...
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Need a simple program to convert to utf-8 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: App to convert from ANSI to UTF8 on windows Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending under Windows I need to find a program to convert a Windows-1250 encoded file to ...
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How to create 1280x720 music video with static pic

I wanna upload a song to youtube, and put a static 1280x720 pic as the video. I'd like the format to be one of the recommended ones. I tried Windows Movie Maker 2.6 but it only generated a 640x480 ...
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Transfer Video to Sony Walkman NWZ-S544

How do I transfer an MP4 video file to my Sony Walkman NWZ-S544? It transfers but then I cannot play it because I get a "format not supported" error. The file I'm transferring is a standard MP4 ...
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How to use mencoder to speed up video?

There's a webcam streaming WMV video that I can play/record with mplayer/mencoder (Debian Lenny including Debian-multimedia) just fine. I'd like to capture the video such that, when played back, it's ...
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What format should I convert my iTunes Videos to?

Recently got Daniusoft Media Converter, and was about to strip the DRM off my iTunes library, then I found I had a huge decision to make. Converting my music seems obvious, to MP3, however the video ...
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Do you lose quality converting from a lossy audio format to a lossless format?

I know that you lose quality going to a lossy format. Examples: flac > mp3 ogg > mp3 But do you lose quality going from it? Example: mp3 > flac Bonus question: What about images? Example:...
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How do I transfer videos from DV camera to divx?

I have a videocamera that uses mini-dv tapes. In the past, I've transferred the files and made DVDs, but that was time- and disk-space- consuming. I wanted to find new tools and to figure out how to ...
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What is the best Handbrake preset for playing video files on Tivo Series 3

I have Mac2Tivo app running, and I can put video files on Tivo. Tivo supposedly supports avi and various other encoding, but half the time video's don't play. I'm pretty sure this has something to do ...
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Repackage m4v file

I have some m4v files I made with Handbrake where the AC3 audio channel was the first one, and the stereo was the second. This causes problems with some things (like Quicktime) so I want to repackage ...
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Encoding Uncompressed video

I'd like to encode uncompressed video into compressed avi or mpeg4. Was wondering what program I should look at getting to do such a task. Videos are between 3 and 20 minutes long, and range anywhere ...
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How do I convert video files for use on the AppleTV?

How do I convert video files for use on the AppleTV? I've tried Handbrake but it crashes on a lot of the video files I have. Any alternatives that are free? I've got an Intel Mac running Snow Leopard.
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How to put keyframes at particular time in FLV Video?

I want to encode an existing FLV video to another FLV Video with resize + croping. Existing video has iFrames at required positions. Now which encoder software is best suited use for this task. ...
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Converting to flash video

I'm trying to convert a .dv video from a camcorder to flash video to show on my organization's website. I'm having issues using VLC (the file ends up empty or not compressed, depending on different ...
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How to convert mjpg file type to mpeg or flv?

I`ve already asked how to do it with ffmpeg but nobody replied. Maybe anybody know how to convert from mjpeg format? Do not suggest to use virtual dub to convert to avi as all it does is putting mjpeg ...
Yaroslav Yakovlev's user avatar
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Conversion of DVC-PRO HD 1080, any free tool?

Is there any free (as in beer, and if it's possible as in bird) tool to convert a dvd in the format DVC-PRO HD 1080 to a normal/standard dvd format so that I can play it on a normal DVD player? EDIT: ...
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