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From: Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@×××××××××.il>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 13:26:45
Message-Id: 4FA13580.3080804@ngtech.co.il
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4? by Mark Knecht
1 On 02/05/2012 03:51, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol<mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
3 <SNIP>
4 >
5 > I think I'll try it in a Virtualbox VM first I instead of a chroot.
6 > That's pretty easy to deal with. Easy to back up. Easy to move to a
7 > different system down the road. No disk partitions, etc.
8 >
9 > Biggest issue for me is likely to be that I haven't done a 32-bit
10 > install in at least 6 years. No idea what to watch out for but I doubt
11 > it's any big deal. No idea how the 32-bit VM really does 32-bit when
12 > it's running on a 64-bit processor that's doing 64-bit all the time
13 > but I guess that's why we pay these Intel& Oracle people the big
14 > bucks, right? ;-)
15 >
16 > And if I end up needing X in the 32-bit environment for some reason it
17 > will be easy to add that down the road.
18 >
19 > It's a real drag about the hassles your machines have been going
20 > through. I hope you get by that soon.
21 >
22 > Cheers,
23 > Mark
24 >
25 how about VLC to convert the videos?
26 i uesd it couple times to play them and play\encode is almost the same
27 using vlc.
28 as i remember it has a "cli" like mode.
29
30 Eliezer
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