h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Does anyone know of a Linux package that can convert various video media (.avi, .wmv, .mpg) to .mp4...so that I can play them on my iPod?

Preferably one with a .deb alread in a supository somewhere, so I don't have to monkey around with dependencies.

And while we're at it...I've got a pile of .rmj's knocking around, for some unknown reason. Anything that will convert them to .mp3s?


btw - some of you who have been following my baby steps with Linux may well be falling off your chairs at the moment. I still don't know what I'm doing, but at least I can speak some of the language.

Yes there is something, and for the life of me I can't think of the names right now. Much of the Mac stuff is ported from Linux so if you look up things like Handbrake and Forty-Two...
wait a moment, I could just copy the readme from Forty-Two here, it'll be a good start (I think ffmpeg is the one you want to start with:

"The Following components distributed in the folder/directory ("bundle") that encloses forty-two
and discomvobulator plus are binaries from the following and are included for user convenience
when/where possible, and are licensed under the (L)GPL:

mplayer: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html

mplayer, mencoder

ogmtools:http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/index.html

dvdxchap

mjpegtools:http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/

mplex, mp2enc, yuvdenoise, yuvkineco, yuvscaler

dvdauthor:http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/

tocgen, ifogen

ffmpeg:http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/

ffmpeg

mpgtx:http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/

mpgtx

vcdimager:http://www.vcdimager.org/

vcdimager

mkisofs:http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/mkisofs.html

mkisofs



Source code for these components, as well as their respective licences for source code reuse, are
available from the links above.

vmt.

Because I'm still taking baby steps - and because I'm a 'user', not a techie - I'll be sticking with the binaries.