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How can I repair a broken AVI file?
I have an .avi file that is about 110mb. When I try to play it with VLC Media Player it says something like "This file is broken. Attempt to repair?" and after it does its thing it is still unable to ...
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How do you convert FLV file format to a format that Picasa recognizes (e.g. AVI, MPEG, WMV)?
I use one of the Firefox plugins for embedded video to download content from Youtube and other sites. The program downloads these videos in FLV format, and I have VLC Media Player to play them, which ...
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Command line video conversion tools [closed]
I'm looking into developing our video content platform and part of it includes a better way for our users to upload their video content (anything from dvds, flash video, dxid, wmv, etc..) and have it ...
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Video format for both iPhone and Android?
Is there a format that plays both on iPhone and Android?
I have been trying to encode videos in MP4 using ffmpeg - however, using libx264 or mpeg4 - the videos either only work in Android, or in ...
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What is an easy, reliable way to determine the type of container a video file uses on Windows?
There are a lot of different video file containers floating around (AVI, WMV, MKV, OGM, etc.), and I've found you can't always trust the file extension. Too often, some confused individual changed it ...
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Trimming and joining media files using ffmpeg
I am trying to remove a segment (00:26:00 - 00:32:30) from a video file input.mp4.
Since there is no way to do that directly using ffmpeg (as far as I know), I am instead cutting the segments which I ...
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How can I learn how multimedia file formats work?
I have always been a bit puzzled about how audio/video file formats work, and how the extension of a media file (e.g. mp4) doesn't always tell the whole story about what media formats the file ...
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How to read available audio tracks in a video file?
Some video files contain multiple audio tracks. Multiple languages for example. Is there a command line tool which gets information about these audio tracks? Names of the audio tracks would be ...
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ffdshow equivalent for the Mac
When I was still on Windows XP, I used ffdshow to take care of all my video and audio codecs needs (with fully customizable subtitles). I did not need any other video player except Windows Media ...
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Video Streaming in Windows 7
I just got Windows 7 up and running, and I turned on the new media streaming feature and added all of my music and videos to the corresponding libraries on my machine. I can then go to my XBox 360 ...
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Best video format for Windows and Mac Compatibility?
I'm about to encode several videos that will physically distributed to clients running either Windows XP (and upwards) or OS X.
Is there a compressed format that would be playable on both platforms ...
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List of media files with its duration
I wanted to get a list of mp4 files and its corresponding duration from all the folders matching the pattern below
e.g: LO1/LO1.MP4,LO3/LO3.MP4
I tried following but I get multiple entries as well ...
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MediaInfo's 'Overall bit rate' vs 'Maximum Overall bit rate'
I'm comparing duplicate media files using MediaInfo, so that I can keep the one with the best quality and delete the other one. However, I'm confused by some of the information.
One Duplicate
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Difference of meta-data between mdls and mediainfo
I was wondering what are the difference between the type of metadata returned by mdls and by mediainfo. Why are they different? For exemple why the creation date is different on the same file?
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Automatically extract all audio tracks from movie files in OS X or Bash?
I'd like to extract the audio out of any video file (not dvds).
I have easy access to OS X and Bash and I'm very comfortable with both.
Thoughts?
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