converting .swf to .mpg

sktsee sktsee at tulsaconnect.com
Wed May 7 20:03:10 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:14 -0700, NoOp wrote: 
> On 05/07/2008 09:58 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > NoOp wrote:
> > 
> >> On 05/07/2008 02:29 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 7 May 2008, norman wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>>> . . .
> >>>>> I quite like WinFF - it's a GUI frontend for ffmpeg:
> >>>>> . . .
> >>> 
> >>>    It can't find ffplay. It is supposed to be in the ffmpeg package,
> >>>    but it is not, and I can't find it elsewhere.
> >>> 
> >>> Pierre
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Why would you expect WinFF to find ffplay?
> >> 
> >> http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffplay-doc.html
> >> 
> >> $ locate ffplay
> >> /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/html/ffplay-doc.html
> >> /usr/share/man/man1/ffplay.1.gz
> >> /usr/bin/ffplay
> > 
> > It would be useful to use "dlocate ffplay", which would also show which
> > package you got ffplay from.
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
> $ dlocate ffplay
> The program 'dlocate' is currently not installed.  You can install it by
> typing:
> sudo apt-get install dlocate
> bash: dlocate: command not found
> 
> Installed and then:
> $ dlocate ffplay
> ffmpeg: /usr/bin/ffplay
> ffmpeg: /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/html/ffplay-doc.html
> ffmpeg: /usr/share/man/man1/ffplay.1.gz
> 
> But checking in Synaptic I see that I got it from medibuntu. However,
> Ubuntu also has it in Universe, though I don't know if there is any
> difference:
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=ffmpeg
> 
> 
The version he listed in his last email (3:20060612-0.1) isn't to be
found in any current Ubuntu, or Medibuntu repo that I can see.

-- 
sktsee





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