Questions tagged [convert]
related to the conversion from one [file-] format to another
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How do I burn a multi-track .img image to a CD-R or CD-RW?
I have an .img file sizing about 600 MiB. When I wanted to burn this file to a CD (not a DVD), I could not find any program capable of doing so. I tried K3b, Brasero, and AcetoneISO. Nothing was able ...
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Converting from shorten (.shn) audio files with error: "failed to read data from input file using format"
Since I can't find the answer here and I would like to be able to do so the next time I need to do this, here is how to convert shorten (.shn) audio files to another format that ffmpeg can handle (e.g....
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convert normal diff to unified diff or use normal diff in patch
I have a normal diff file but I can't patch with it.
So how can I convert this normal diff to unified diff or patch with normal diff file?
Only in /tmp/ns-allinone-2.26/ns-2.26/common: misc.o
diff -...
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How can I get the text of notes in a ppt file via unoconv?
I would like to get text of notes for individual slides in PPT to easily accessible format in my linux machine(Ubuntu 12.04).
My goal is to convert PPT slides to image files with meta data, notes as ...
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avconv/ffmpeg - audio slowly drifts out of sync, original is in sync
Almost all of the instructions I've read about drifting audio sync is regarding live screen recording. I'm simply trying to truncate useless video from the end of a raw DV file in an effort to prepare ...
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How to convert Softsub Video file to Hardsub Video file?
How to convert Soft-sub Video file to Hard-sub Video file ?
I have many mkv video files but I can't watch this videos because the subtitles don’t appear so I want to convert this files to Hard-sub ...
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Converting JFIF standard jpg files to EXIF standard jpg files in Ubuntu
How can I convert JFIF standard jpg images to EXIF standard jpg images in Ubuntu 20.04 preferably via command line if possible?
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How to convert an ATS video with no compression to a mp4 video?
I am using ResearchIR software in Windows 10 and I wonder if there is a tool or command in Ubuntu 20.04 which can convert the output of a thermal camera capture that is .ats with no compression, ...
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Word to Latex Converter GUI software?
Is there any software to convert word to LaTeX files. I have seen some terminal based project. is there any GUI program?
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Batch convert .rar terminal
I need to batch convert a bunch of .rar files to .zip files in a folder. I do not need to extract them they are comics help in .rar form and I want to convert them to .zip so they can be used in ...
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Improve typeface on convert
The typeface is heavily consumed using convert. Is there any way to improve this?
Spec.
convert mydoc.pdf mydoc.jpg
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How can I convert this epub file to pdf?
I have tried Calibre to convert an epub file to pdf, following https://askubuntu.com/a/299752/
ebook-convert /tmp/1.epub 1.pdf
but it fails with many errors.
$ ebook-convert --version
..ebook-convert-...
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convert: combine multiple imges to pdf but convert them first to jpg
I have a list of image files which I want to combine into a pdf.
The ImageMagick for that is convert myImgFiles*.png -resize 1000 myOutput.pdf and works perfectly.
But now I first want to convert the ...
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How to convert .mpub to pdf
Currently I have an mpub (Mobcast Mobile Optimized ePub Book) file which I would like to convert to pdf.
Calibre does not support the mpub extension type https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html
I am ...
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Speech recognition in Ubuntu: convert from audio to text
I am using the following commands:
ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -ar 16000 -ac 1 file.wav
pocketsphinx_continuous -infile file.wav 2> pocketsphinx.log > result.txt
All things work fine, but I want to ...
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No manual entry for xerces
How do I install xerces so that I can use it for schema validation?
I've tried:
libxerces-c-doc
libxerces-c-samples
libxerces-c3.2
libxerces2-java
libxerces2-java-doc
Probably it's installed, but ...
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moving text in video with ffmpeg always 3 minute
I have a problem. I have found a tutorial on how to add text in videos using ffmpeg. but I want every 3 minute. I get the script only 10 second 1 time. I want 3 minute 1 time.
my script:
ffmpeg -i ...
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convert 720p to 1080p 60fps ffmpeg
I'm confused where to ask. I want to ask, please give the encode script to convert the video I made from 720p to 1080 60fps. when I check the video I can't reach 60fps if I use the script below
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Convert error when changing pdf to png
I was trying convert a pdf to an image when I got this error.
I have since converted the pdf to an image using a screenshot tool, but Im concerned that when I work more with the person that provided ...
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How do I combine .tif files without tiffcp
I have 536 .tif files. I want to join them and convert the output file into a pdf file.
Now the problems which I am facing are:
tiffcp gives an error: Unknown field with tag 32934 (0x80a6) ...
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Convert ext4 to btrfs with kernel > 4.0
I'm thinking about converting the data disk of my little home server from ext4 to btrfs.
After some reading I came over the btrfs-convert (from package btrfs-tools),
that allows in-place conversion ...
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Convert a .MP4 to Opus Via Command Line?
I'm looking for a command line method to convert .mp4's to .opus files. I've read (How to convert a sound file to Opus), but most (If not all) of the answers were unable to do so in a command line ...
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How to crop a .ps image and output as .jpg on terminal
I am trying to use imagemagick convert on Ubuntu to crop an image from a .ps file, and to make this cropped part as a separate image or .png or .jpg
I tried the following but it didn't work:
convert ...
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Recommendation: GUI video to GIF editor
There are already questions on how to:
Convert a video to GIF at the command line
Record a screencast
What are friendly, full-featured GUI editing tools to create a GIF from a video?
Ideally, I'm ...
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Libre Office - Convert Japanese file incorrectly
I am using the shell conversion method of Libre Office:
soffice --convert-to pdf:writer_pdf_Export --outdir ./ ./file.docx
I am converting docx files to pdf.
I have a docx file in Japanese which ...
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How to convert iso to dmg on ubuntu
I have downloaded Yosemite-Zone.iso on ubuntu , iwant to convert it to dmg on ubuntu ., how to do that
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How can I create an animated GIF in Ubuntu using a set of images?
I have a set of about 500 JPEG images. The collective size of the set is about 60 MB and each image has the dimensions 480 x 270. I want to convert these images to an animated GIF.
I have attempted ...
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Error: Aborted (core dumped)
I want to convert MODIS HDF files into a NetCDF format in Ubuntu 14.04. I have not compiled the NCO operators with large file size capability and I am getting the following error:
ncks: nc4file.c:...
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Why does convert add half an empty page
Try running the following:
pdftk a-i0778e.pdf cat 1 output page.pdf
convert page.pdf page.jpeg (or png, whatever you want)
returns a weird png file with left half blank and the image of the pdf ...
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Is it possible to transcode a video file with an ifs extension?
I have recovered video files recorded from a camera DVR which has an embedded Linux system and compresses in H264, the files are .ifs and I need to be able to make these files viewable on any computer ...
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How can I convert a folder with a lot of .bin files to their respective .iso on Ubuntu 22.04?
I have a folder with +100 .bin (and only .bin) files which I want to convert to their respective .iso (a.bin -> a.iso, b.bin -> b.iso), and so on. I only found on the net examples on how to ...
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FFMpeg convert only Audio and keep Video Setting with Subtitles, Metadata
I've been dealing with video conversion for a while now. I would like that the video is taken over 1zu1. Only the audio should be changed from DTS to AAC.
Unfortunately, the command does not accept ...
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Convert mp4 to iso
I want to convert an mp4 file from YouTube,to an iso file, so I can burn the file to a dvd. I have searched, but cannot find any software that works with Ubuntu.
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Merge images to PDF with xconvert-like options
I'm trying to merge images to PDF. Usually the following website is what I use.
https://www.xconvert.com/merge-image-to-pdf
Given the number of images, I'm thinking of automating the conversion with a ...
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How to Convert 2 Image to 1 Page PDF With terminal?
I have a question, I have a problem, I want to change 2 images in 1 page pdf, how do I do it? I tried this command
convert *.jpg -resize 1240x1753 \
-extent 1240x1753 -gravity ...
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How do I batch convert images from sRGB to CMYK with a specific ICC profile?
I have a few hundred sRGB .tif files that require conversion to the CMYK FORGRA52 ICC profile. I tried using the software XnConvert, but this doesn't work (I don't think it supports conversion from ...
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What programs convert German audio to text (Ubuntu 18.04)?
Is there any tool in Ubuntu 18.04 I can use to convert German audio to text? I searched a lot but all applications use English.
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Importing Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MKLC) files
I have a couple of legacy Windows keyboard layouts for a number of languages that I made 8 years ago on Win7.
They were made with the "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator" which saves the ...
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Batch Convert videos in Nested Folders
I used the excellent script from Byte Commander
How can I convert all video files in nested folders? (batch conversion)
I have two questions though.
1) Is it possible to completely mirror the source ...
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Convert flac to lossless wma?
I have a bunch of flac files I have to convert to lossless .wma because a game I have requires I use it.
I was looking at avconv, and tried avconv -i song.flac output.wma, however I believe this made ...
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Build or Convert
I have been playing around with Ubuntu and it is perfect for what I need a computer for. I don't need to worry about Microsoft office(I use it through Dex on my note 9).
I want a strictly Ubuntu ...
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Convert Text Books to Audiobooks?
I know that there are services, such as Zamzar that will convert a file type such as ebpub to an audio format such as an mp3. Is there such software on Ubuntu systems?
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mp4 videos has somehow changed to jpg format
I was thinking that I have lost some of my mp4 videos. Now I have found them as a large size jpg files. I don't know how that happened bud would like to be able to play them again.
Just renaming them ...
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How to bulk convert html content of eml files to doc (Word) files
I got over 5000 of eml files with html content (declared as text/html utf-8 in headers, but...) and I need to convert them to the only format our outsourced translator supports - Microsoft Word .doc
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How can I convert .BOK file to .PDF file in Ubuntu?
How can I convert .BOK file to .PDF file? I searched enough but I only found solutions that work on Windows, but none for Ubuntu. Does anyone have any suggestion on how to do this?
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(comics library) Convert multiple rar files to multiple cbr files
I'd like to convert my comic library to CBR to use in Calibre/ACBF Viewer/Mcomix and Android devices, but I dont want to do a single cbr file.
Is there a faster way to do this?
I use KDE and Unity ...
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convert 32bit rpm to deb on 64bit linux
I downloaded backburner (renderfarm manager) from here .
I tried to convert it with sudo alien -cv backburner.rpm but terminal prints out
backburner.rpm is for architecture i386 ; the package cannot ...
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batch "convert" into jpg with nice alpha flatten
I would like to batch resize and convert to jpg a few png files. But some pixels are transparent, and some are half transparent; I would like the transparent ones to be white, and the half-transparent ...
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How to convert multiple files with Winff?
When I select one file to convert from ".mpg" format to ".mp4" format in Winff, it converts nice! but when I try to convert many ".mpg" files, I see only one file in output folder! and guess Winff ...
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Winff exits with "Unrecognized option" error
I installed ffmpeg completely from this Guide. I installed Winff in Ubuntu but when I want to try convert I face to this error:
ffmpeg version git-2013-11-15-995f450 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the ...
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