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Re: Movie problem



On Tuesday 15 November 2016 04:51:06 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 08:54:26PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Hi all;
>
> [...]
>
> > Kino, as in running on a fully uptodate wheezy, apparently can't
> > find ffmpeg to make the conversion when I attempt to export this 1
> > minutes worth of raw-dv format video.  ffmpeg and all its friends
> > are installed. But in kino, the whole page of mpeg4 options is
> > ghosted out.
>
> There's a little trap around the last versions of Debian and ffmpeg.
> The default for ffmpeg changed from ffmpeg to libav and back (I can't
> remember at exactly which version).
>
> This may or may not contribute to yout kino problem.
>
> Otherwise, you might try to convert your video from the command line.
> Ffmpeg's man page seems daunting at first, but it's worth it, since
> most GUI video programs I've seen are extremely idiosyncratic. Either
> you fit the way they work or you're SOL (I don't fit most).
>
> Just ask if you need some help taming ffmpeg's command line (I'm
> no expert -- by a very long shot, but already carry some scars :-)
>
So do I from years past. But I found the web page with a list of kino's 
tools that kino uses, and installed all that would, and now the export 
menu is all alive and apparently well..

But, it turns out that aliexpress/alibaba has a broken refund request 
page, it takes all the data, including the filename of a 220 
megabyte .avi I went to the trouble of making, but at the top of the 
page, where you are supposed to be able to click on "open a dispute" and 
fill out the rest of the page, those buttons do not respond, nor do they 
indicate why.  So I am screwed, and will have to contest the charge on 
my card. Except my bank can't either for that charge, I just called 
them..

This is the 3rd time I've been screwed, total now north of $125, by this 
outfit over the last couple years, aliexpress/alibaba.  It will NOT 
happen again.

> regards
> -- t


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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