WinFF

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 Home Page

1. Installing WinFF

Using the Software Manager simply type in 'winff' without quotes in the search box and hit the return/enter key on your keyboard.  Winff should be one of the first choices in the search results....

2. Click it, then click the install button and your done.

3. To insure that WinFF works correctly perform next step in the terminal.  Click the Mint Menu, select the Terminal application from your Favorites section and type in the following:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-52

4.Hit the enter/return key on your keyboard and provide your password...libavcodec-extra-52 will install and a couple of others will uninstall.  This will keep you from getting the infamous error message "Unknown encoder 'libmp3lame'" error as well as a few others...

Updating the WinFF Presets

WinFF comes with some nice presets, however in todays market of Droid and iPads it may be necessary to update the existing presets with something a little bit more modern...

1. first download the following file:

 presets-libavcodec52-v6.xml.gz

2. Right click and select Extract Here from the context menu and you should have a file called presets-libavcodec52-v6.xml in your download directory.  Re-name it to presets.xml , then right-click the file and select Copy from the context menu.

3. In Nautilus go to your home directory then from the tool bar select View , then Show Hidden Files or simply do Ctrl+H in the home directory to show hidden files.  

4. Navigate to the .winff folder and you will see a file labled presets.xml

5. Right-click the file and re-name it to something like presets.xml.bak , the select Edit from the toolbar and click on Paste ( or simply Ctrl+V ) to insert the new presets.xml file in the .winff directory.

6. Open WinFF from the Mint Menu and you should have all new presets to play with 

That's about it.  WinFF should work and is pretty much straight-forward as to how it is used....