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steve2470

(37,481 posts)
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 06:56 PM Oct 2021

Handy website which converts audio to other audio, video to audio, other formats: cloudconvert.com

https://cloudconvert.com/

It is free to use, at first. If you do a LOT of converting (in my case, from mpg and mp4 and mkv, etc to mp3), they ask you to set up a free account. If you keep using it, they ask you to pay. You get 500 minutes of conversion time for $9. Not bad, to me, if you need to convert a lot.

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Handy website which converts audio to other audio, video to audio, other formats: cloudconvert.com (Original Post) steve2470 Oct 2021 OP
Have you tried ffmpeg? hunter Oct 2021 #1
Yes, use ffmpeg! CloudWatcher Oct 2021 #2
no, I will use handbrake, thanks nt steve2470 Oct 2021 #4
VLC Media Player desktop versions will convert many file formats (for free).  n/t Make7 Oct 2021 #3

hunter

(40,852 posts)
1. Have you tried ffmpeg?
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 01:56 AM
Oct 2021

The default conversions work well enough and there's extremely fine control if you need it.

https://ffmpeg.org/

The handbrake video transcoder is built on that, for anyone who'd rather not use command line tools.

https://handbrake.fr/

A cloud based solution might be handy for a phone or tablet.

CloudWatcher

(2,127 posts)
2. Yes, use ffmpeg!
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 03:19 AM
Oct 2021

The only problem with ffmpeg is that it is so powerful there are 1001 different options and browsing through the documentation can seem like getting a PhD in audio/video engineering. And a lot of people are turned off by a command-line interface

But ... I'd be willing to wager that all of the audio/video processing on cloudconvert.com is running ffmpeg to do the actual work.

So ... if audio/video processing is something you do routinely, take the time to get ffmpeg and run it locally on your computer. It'll wind up being a lot faster than waiting for the uploads/downloads to any site in the cloud.

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