Converting .ogg to .wmv or .mp4, .mpeg

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Ray Parrish wrote:
> Erich Jansen wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 13:17 -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have several conversion programs already, but none of them will let me 
>>> convert to windows style video files for upload to YouTube. YouTube will 
>>> not take .ogg, and the .avi format I have been converting my .oggs to 
>>> loses detail and looks fuzzy and out of focus when used.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what programs and plugisns I need to convert .ogg to 
>>> .wmv, .mp4, or. .mpeg?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Ray Parrish
>>>
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>> sudo apt-get install avidemux
>>   
>>     
> I already have that, and it refuses to open .ogg files, claiming that 
> they cannot be opened. Any other ideas?
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>
>   
Currently avidemux does not support ogv files. I use ffmpeg from the
command line. You need to make sure you have the ffmpeg package installed:

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Then to do the conversion:
$ ffmpeg -i input.ogv -b 5000k output.avi

If you want a graphical utility to do the same I think winff should be
able to do it (I don't use it, I just know of it).

Hope that helps,

-komputes