Video format : converting MOV to MPEG ??

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Hi,
[...]
> I search in the Application Installer for a general purpose video
> editing program, thinking I could just import the videos and save them
> as MPEG, but I can't see anything suitable.
> 
> IIRC, there are command line tools to handle audio/video
> encoding/decoding, but unless someone who knows his onions with these
> tools can take my hand, I have zero chance of succeeding I think...
> 
[...]

I am not an expert myself, but the mencoder is what you are looking for. 
Its a command linetool, but there should be some GUI frontends to it. I 
am just suggesting this, so that you can google for it while waiting for 
others to reply.

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