video conversion

[Haneef Bashir]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Mark Widdicombe
<mwiddicombe at shoprite.co.za> wrote:
>
> >From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Ali Hassan [alihuco at yahoo.com]
> >Sent: 14 February 2011 10:26
>
> >I need a tool to convert videos I download from youtube, like flv clips, to be playable on my mobile phone.
> >My mobile is Samsung Player One. I have a very nice utility that does that in windows, But I am most of the time using Ubuntu 10.04.
> >Please do not tell me "youtube-dl" it does not work.
> >I have been searching the web for a month now, and all tools they suggest, they install good, but at conversion time they give you an error message.
>
> I use WinFF to convert flash video to avi.  I assume your phone can play avi?
>

>
> i hear that arista is pretty good.