How to Find and Delete Corrupted Files to Avoid Backing Them Up

Loop though all avi and mkv files with:Example loop for all files in one directory: (add for /R to use recursion)Windows For Loops infoEdit Here is the Linux bash version I tested works:Now grep error log for which files are bad and delete them. I dont know what the output looks like so you may want to post sample output for assistance with that last step or split into another question.Example output with corrupt file (chopped off end of file), errors can vary significantly:.

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many of the video and audio conversion and almost every video and audio editing program can do that, if there is a mp3 encode codec on the machine like "lame". I would use gold wave http://www.goldwave.com/release.php they let you try it for a while, and it can batch that process along with filter batching. It should be able to handle 2-4hour files. Super the video converter can also do that, it might not need a MP3 encode codec, just turn off the video, drop one or many files in, and push the button. (super comes with junkware that should be avoided on install) Super can also do video convert.Many video editing programs can "export" the audio seperate, and do not have to have a video nessisarily, Just like Super any video converter that has some parameters could probably do it, like avisynth, and ffmpeg. Mabey even windows movie maker would allow that?One for all, on one side having a program that has to many features is not easy to use, but if you already have something on the machine for doing "Video with Audio" it might be able to do audio only, fast and easy. it may just need a MP3 codec. Searching here on this site for "mp3 convert" comes up with many usefull suggestions , because many of the programs can easily take a PCM uncompressed wave input, all they need to do is the MP3 out.

Program to convert flac to mp3?

How to convert .ogg to .mp3?Convert mp4 to mp3

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How can I convert an AVI file to a Blackberry-compatible format?

You can use Avidemux. It also provides good editing features.WinFF is another option, only for video conversions. As the app site says:WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg's, flv's, and mov's, all into avi's all at once. WinFF is available for Windows 95, 98 , ME, NT, XP, VISTA, and Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat based GNU/Linux distributions.

ffmpeg is really powerful but it might be tricky to use for many users. WinFF provides a GUI for it and makes it easier to use.Edit:Mobile Media Converter is another good option.

Application descriptions:The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter for converting between popular desktop media formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv), QuickTime Video (mov) and commonly used mobile devices/phones formats like AMR audio (amr) and 3GP video. iPod/iPhone and PSP compatible MP4 video are supported. Moreover, you can remove and add new formats or devices through the internet.

An integrated YoutTube downloader is available for direct downloading and converting to any of these formats. You can trim your clips for ringtone creation or any other purpose and crop your videos for removing up/down black bars or other unwanted parts of the image. Additionally, embedded subtitles can be encoded onto the video for watching movies or shows with subtitles on devices that does not supports them.

The program has a very easy-to-use and simple GUI (Graphical User Interface) that helps even the most amateur user. Most of the times, the only data that you must enter is the input file(s) or just drag 'n' drop the input file(s)! The 3GP and AMR formats are used by mobile phones for MMS, video and sound recordings, etc

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Converting a youtube video to mp3 using ffmpeg WITHOUT youtube-dl?

A browser and application-inspecific way is to use http://deturl.com/. Deturl.com owns both the http://deturl.com/ and http://pwnyoutube.com/ domains. To download a specific youtube video in any format, simply replace the youtube.com portion of the URL with either deturl.

com or pwnyoutube.

com (my personal fav).

For example, a movie with the URL www.

youtube.

com/watch?vabcdefghijk would become www.

pwnyoutube.

com/watch?vabcdefghijk. Follow the instructions on the download page to complete the conversion and download.Out of interest, I checked on new alternatives and discovered ClipGrab. It, like Miro below, is an open-source and cross-platform application. Unlike Miro, however, it includes a built-in video downloader AND converter, one of which is the MP3 format. It doesn't include as many other conversion types as Miro, but you could always convert it with Miro after download if needed.Download the open-source and cross-platform Miro Video Converter (implements ffmpeg)To download/convert youtube videos from a command line (with ffmpeg integration), the aforementioned youtube-dl seems to be the best solution.

I'm not certain why sudo is needed to run youtube-dl. I switched over to linux and successfully completed various tasks without sudo or su -c. My output is below. Let us know where you hit a snag at. (echo's are just for comment purposes)I think I see what went wrong. You were trying to wget a file to a /bin directory and it required su. If you create the directory /bin (e.g. /home/USERNAME/bin), it's still a searchable directory that you have full permissions to.Assuming you were following the install directions listed at http://rg3.

github.

io/youtube-dl/download.

html, run mkdir /bin and replace all instances of /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl with /bin/youtube-dl instead. I can verify that this works on my shared hosting provider (Arvixe)

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Video File (.MOV) Opens in VLC and Other Players But Not in Premiere

I had this same issue. I found 2 different solutions for my file.The issue has to do with some kind of codec issue with newer versions of Adobe that no longer support certain .mov encoding types (or something like that)Solution 1: Rename the file extension to .

mp4Believe it or not, this is actually working for some people. Read toward the end of this thread.I tried it myself and was finally able to open the file in Adobe CS5. However, only the audio appeared in the timeline. No video.

Solution 2: Re-encode using VLCThere's a fix in this thread from Sasha L. (dated April 11, 2018) that involves re-encoding the file using VLC. I tried this and it worked. The steps once opening VLC are:When I used this method I was able to export a visual-only video (no audio).

Between the 2 methods I was able to export audio and visual and import them into Adobe Premiere so that they could be combined.Best of luck!

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What's the best way to convert video for the BlackBerry?

Any Video Converter FreewareFree Video Converter with more than 4,800,000 happy users!Any Video Converter Freeware- the Free Video Converter - is the most renowned free video converter for converting video files between various formats, with fast converting speed and excellent video quality. This powerful free video converter application makes video conversion quick and easy.Any Video Converter features include:Input formats:

avi, asf, mov, rm, rmvb, flv, mkv, mpg, 3gp, m4v, vob, YouTube videos and moreOutput formats:

avi, mp4, wmv, flv, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, mpg (PAL or NTSC), mp3, wma, ogg, aac"To have your favorite clips how you want them, whether that's on your DVR, iPod, PSP or desktop, you need the right utility to convert theem into the format that works for you. Commercial video converter software's aplenty, but there are several solid free utilities that can convert your video files on every operating system, or if you've just got a web browser and a quick clip. Put DVDs on your iPod, YouTube videos on DVD, or convert any video file with Any Video Converter Freeware, today's top 10 free video rippers, encoders and converters." -- From Lifehacker.com

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3 outputs from one ATI card (HD4850)

That card supports (at most) two simultaneous displays. The specs for that chipset tell us it has "Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs", which means you can plug two monitors into it.The important thing to recognize here is that a DVI plug supports two signals--one digital, and one analog. But they (in this case) pass the same signal. A DVI-to-VGA adaptor simply ignores the digital signal, and passes the analog signal on to your monitor.If your card has three plugs, one of which is VGA, it basically just means it has a built-in DVI-to-VGA adaptor, so one of the two display outputs is connected to the VGA and (probably) the HDMI port (HDMI is basically DVI minus the analog signal optional sound info--which is irrelevant to a video card).

So think of it as a video card with a DVI port, and a HDMI or VGA port.If you want three monitors, you will need another video card. Your PCI card ought to do the trick, but there can be icky driver issues to deal with. It's always easier to do that with two identical cards (as I do--I have two identical nVidia cards, each with 2 outputs, to drive my 3 monitors).You also might have better luck with another PCI card that uses different drivers