Ubuntu – How to convert flv to mp3 on ubuntu 14 without ffmpeg

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And how to do any convertions in Ubuntu 14 if there is no ffmpeg anymore? When I last use it prev version I had warning to use different tool but I don't remember what it was.

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You can use Sound Converter.

Sound Converter is a gnome sound conversion available for Linux. You can convert music files into another format (OOG, MP3 and Flac). The tool is very simple, just add the files, set the destination directory and convert the files.^SC

To install, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo apt-get install soundconverter

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Ubuntu – How to use ffmpeg’s “-vf” / “-vfilters” option without recompiling ffmpeg theself

You are right, the ffmpeg packages in Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 do not support video filters. If you use Ubuntu 10.10, you can add unofficial packages from the Debian Multimedia Project and install their ffmpeg version (you should not do this if you use Ubuntu 10.04, there are too many conflicts with older packages. Also do not combine those packages with ubuntu-restriced-extras). Then the following works

ffmpeg -i in.avi -vf vflip out.avi

An easier option ̣- if all you want to do is flip videos - is to use the mencoder package instead of ffmpeg. After installing the package, the following works (copying the audio, encoding the video with libavcodecs):

mencoder -vf flip -o out.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc in.avi

Ubuntu – Convert CAF to MP3 or WAV

Times have changed from the days of Ubuntu 9.10 (when this question was originally asked) and now a modern version of FFmpeg in a recent Ubuntu release has both an encoder and decoder for the caf (Core Audio Format) container. Test your own modern version of FFmpeg as follows for 'D'ecoding and 'E'ncoding with caf:

ffmpeg -formats 2>/dev/null | grep caf
 DE caf             Apple CAF (Core Audio Format)

We can test with the following sample .caf file:

wget samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/caf/waterfall.caf

And an easy conversion to mp3 with FFmpeg:

ffmpeg -i waterfall.caf -hide_banner -ac 1 test.mp3
[caf @ 0x66e8c0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.0 : mono
Input #0, caf, from 'waterfall.caf':
  Duration: 00:00:01.95, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 722 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le (lpcm / 0x6D63706C), 44100 Hz, mono, s16, 705 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (pcm_s16le (native) -> mp3 (libmp3lame))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Output #0, mp3, to 'test.mp3':
  Metadata:
    TSSE            : Lavf58.10.100
    Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3 (libmp3lame), 44100 Hz, mono, s16p
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc58.13.100 libmp3lame
size=      16kB time=00:00:01.96 bitrate=  65.7kbits/s speed=75.6x    
video:0kB audio:16kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 1.429291%

How cool is the command line :)

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