[SGVLUG] linux based video conversion

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 7/22/05, John Riehl <jcriehl at mail.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
> Are there any tool recommendations to convert quicktime to avi format?
> I dont know the exact format (qt4, qt5, etc), other than quicktime.
> googling about, I see a whole lot of ads for the same windows shareware
> on different sites, on the same page as some linux software.
> 
> what are the major open-source video programs out there?
> I see players such as xine included in my suse installation.
> 
Xine and mplayer are the players. If mplayer can play a clip you can
use memcoder to convert it to some other format.