Thread: Quicktime Movie...I'm Very Ashamed.

Apparently, my phone makes Quicktime videos. So I emailed it to myself, and Sprint sent me a link to it. Well, I fund the file in my cache. It has no extention, but Linux recognizes it as a Quicktime movie. So, I went to Zamzar and tried to convert it to an mp3, but it yelled at me saying that it needs and extention. What is the extention? mpg or mpeg?

Oh, and can I embed the file into a post here if it's Quicktime and uploaded to my site?

Use ffmpeg to convert AV between formats

Code:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Code:

ffmpeg -vn -i input_file outputfile.mp3

This will convert your file to an mp3 file (discarding any video, obviously)

there's also a GUI front-end for ffmpeg, if you want
called WinFF

Thanks, Ynot.


Can you embed mp3s here?

Wait, it didn't work. It gave an output file, but it's 0 MB.

There was an error at the end of the console, I'll try to find it.

you might not have the ffmpeg mp3 encoder
(not included by default due to licensing issues)

Code:

sudo apt-get install libavcodec-unstripped-52

(unstripped, meaning nothing taken out)

then try the above again

Try to see if you can play it with VLC

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/