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converter for different needs:

searching for the fastest and most memory saving open code to do that, suggestions?

text

* iso8859-15_to_utf8
* utf8_to_ISO8859
* html2pdf
* pdf2html
* html2ascii filename pdf2text
* ps2ascii
* pstotext
* pdftops
* ascii -> postscript a2ps
* ascii -> pdf
* .doc to postscripts

audio

* wav -> mp3 lame
* wav -> ogg 'oggenc (part of vorbis-tools debian package)
* wma -> mp3 wma2mp3 script unsing mplayer and lame
* wma -> ogg (same as wma2mp3, just pipe the command to the oggencoder)
* mp3 change bitrate

image

* jpg -> png (imagemagick, convert rose.jpg rose.png)
* gif -> png (imagemagick ,http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php)
* png -> jpg ( " )
* resize (imagemagick)
* colors  (imagemagick)

-> Generally, for images Imagemagick can do (almost) anything.

database

* sql -> mdb
* mdb -> sql
* ex -> sql
*

video

create vcd cdimages in 2 steps

you convert the videofile you have on your harddisk (may be anykind), to a mpeg file, that matches to the vcd specification using ffmpeg: fmpeg -i <videofile> -target pal-vcd TEMP_OUTFILE.mpeg
in the next step you should be able to create a video-cd-image using vcdimager: vcdimager -t vcd2 $TEMP_OUTFILE.mpeg

* avi -> mpg
* avi -> svcd
* avi -> dvd 
* dvd -> wob -> avi
* mplayer --v caca
* transcode
* mencoder 
* wmv Windows Media Player-> xvid avi = mencoder
   (mencoder -ovc wanted_videocodec -oac wanted_audiocodec wmvfile.wmv -o avifile.avi)
* wma Windows Media Player-> ogg = (look in audio)
* [example wmv->avi]

help, this doesnt work: shrink avi

transcode -i "test.avi"   -y mov -w 1152 -V -o "out.avi"   


* mencoder : shrink avi 
mencoder -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts bitrate=1000 -lameopts
               abr:br=128 -o out.avi test.avi

Microsoft > Free

Office

* doc (Word)-> ASCII,Postscript = antiword, catdoc
* xls (Excel)-> ASCII,MySQL = xls2csv, catdoc, [Intelligent Converters] (non-free)
* mdb (Access)-> ASCII,MySQL = [navicat] (non-free)
* ppt (Powerpoint) -> ASCII = catppt, catdoc

eMail

* mails with attachment to plaint text [textmail.pl]

related : split audio or video files

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 === video ===
+==== create vcd cdimages in 2 steps ====
- * create vcd_cdimages_in_2_steps: 1) you convert the videofile you have on your harddisk (may be anykind), to a mpeg file,
-                                      that matches to the vcd specification usinf [[ffmpeg]]:
+#you convert the videofile you have on your harddisk (may be anykind), to a mpeg file, that matches to the vcd specification using [[ffmpeg]]: <code>fmpeg -i <videofile>  -target pal-vcd  TEMP_OUTFILE.mpeg</code>
+# in the next step you should be able to create a video-cd-image using [[vcdimager]]:  <code>vcdimager -t vcd2 $TEMP_OUTFILE.mpeg</code>
-                                      <pre>
-                                      ffmpeg -i <videofile>  -target pal-vcd  TEMP_OUTFILE.mpeg in the next step
-                                      </pre>
-) you should be able to create a video-cd-image using [[vcdimager]]:
-                                      <pre>
-                                      vcdimager -t vcd2 $TEMP_OUTFILE.mpeg
-                                      </pre>
  * avi -> mpg
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                abr:br=128 -o out.avi test.avi
 </pre>
 === Microsoft > Free ===