After installing and trying various programs, I would recommend removing programs that you did not find useful or did not work well on your system, except VLC (do not remove this).Ĭonverseen: With Converseen you can convert, resize, rotate and flip an infinite number of images and some video formats with a mouse click.īecause you are using Linux Mint KDE, which I personally Love and also use, I would also recommend trying other video players in addition to VLC, like: "Dragon Player" (already in your menu), Kaffeine, MPV, Mplayer2, mencoder, smplayer, xine and or gxine, etc. Unfortunately, you have to try various programs to see which works best for your hardware and your operating system (Linux Mint KDE), some work much faster than others and use much less memory. " Curlew" is a really easy, very good, program for this as are others.
Some are in topics like "creating a DVD", etc. There are also numerous other very good posts in this forum and other forums regarding converting multi-media files into other formats, if you search for them using "converting video", "video", etc. There are numerous really good video and audio converters available in Linux, some are already mentioned in this post. I think it is a good idea to convert from ".wmv" to another more modern common format(s), like ".mp4", ".mkv", or "ogg" although I think ".ogg" is not currently as universally playable on most hardware, like "mp4", "mkv", ,or "avi". In some programs you can change audio formats as well, for example from 320bps MP3 to 128 bps MP3 which is still very good audio but save space any setting lower than 128bps and audio would not be very good. If you want to maintain good video and audio quality, then do not reduce these video and audio specifications too much. One way to reduce video size is to reduce the video frame resolution output from 1080 to 720 or less. To reduce video size, there are a few ways to do this. It would also help to know what your final "plan" is for these videos? Do you intend on making DVD's, or just having a digitized video collection which you can play through your computer(s), TV's or DVD player(s), DNLA networked devices, and or multi-media devices? Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libv4l/stableĪlso, some programs and video formats provide better compression levels which can save space too, like ".mkv" format works pretty well. In your software manager or spm, I would look for and install "V4L" (video 4 linux) programs, like "dv4l", "qv4l2", v4l-conf", "v4l2ucp", "v4l-utils", "dvgrab", maybe "tvtime", etc.įor the newest "v4l-utils", you can use this PPA: You might have to install some more DVD, video, and audio related codecs (libraries), programs, and utilities to help with this. You mentioned that you have some kind of video capture device, so what is it, and how do you have it connected? Is it the "Honestech VHS to DVD 7.0 Deluxe, which is a USB connected device? You might be able to use your Linux Mint KDE to capture the rest of your VHS collection with this device you have, but we would need to have more information on your hardware and setup to advise you better. You didn't specify which edition of Linux Mint KDE you are using and exactly how you are digitizing your VHS collection. It would help to have more information, see FYI below. I just read your post and the good replies to it. Suggestions as to how to go about concerning this little issue are very welcome indeed. Experimenting with PiTiVi and VLC has not yielded any satisfactory result, though. wmv film and drama collection, as rescued from VHS, to. I wonder if there are ways of bringing it down - either by software inside or outside the KDE repository, or through the command line. Hence, you may imagine the speed with which a 2TB external hard drive will fill up, at this rate. wmv - which amounts to 4-5 GB up to a whopping 9 (!) GB a pop, once processing is finished. Yet the sole format this interface accepts is. To this end, a video capturing device is in use - for which only my other (auxiliary Windows 7) laptop can be employed. Rather a lot are still awaiting processing. The latter previously carried Ubuntu 12.04 LTS/Windows 7 dual boot, of which the Windows partition has been used to digitalize a vast collection of VHS tapes. Since recently, I have KDE Mint on both laptop (for daily use) and desktop (for music production).