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Which offline converter? I find myself often trying to convert:
etc. I have no idea how to do that but if I type it into a search engine there's usually tools there.
FFmpeg and handbrake do the latter two quite handily. The latter even has a nice program interface, rather than needing commands.
ImageMagick is capable of the first. I've had it go the other way before, and I should be most surprised if it couldn't convert a PDF to a jpg.
imagemagick handles almost all image files
ffmpeg handles almost all video files
if you use gnome there's a nice little feature of the file explorer where you can just drag and drop scripts into
~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/
for example
make a fish script (ignoring error checking for brevity here, my real script had a couple guard rails)
then when you right click on a file in your gnome file explorer you can click the scripts option
collapsed inline media
and the script is right there so you can just easily convert with the press of a button
collapsed inline media
note, i crossed out some stuff that includes client names
tldr: there are so many ways to do what you need to do there's no reason to trust random websites you don't know. there's a lot of slimey people out there wanting to take advantage of people. and everybody should strive to be at least a little computer literate. the examples i gave here aren't complicated. they're simple commands
That's a pretty sweet feature in GNOME! I'll need to see if there is something similar for KDE.
Don't most pdf viewers have an export to image option?
Do you actually have files with an .avc extension? AVC is a codec that can be used in many different container formats, including MP4. Where did these files come from?
I actually agree that most audio conversion tools are needlessly awkward. Audacity will convert these just fine, though doesn't really do bulk conversion. Foobar2000 will do it in bulk if you're on windows.
On the PDF to JPEG, you can also open the PDFs with an image editor, such as Inkscape or krita, and then save the image on the format and quality needed. This method also has the benefit that on some cases you play with the assets if needed. (Depends on how was the PDF generated)
Don't know, I never looked! But I will, thanks.
Yes
I'll give this a try on Tenacity. I didn't realize they had file conversion on there.
Only helpful comment in this thread, thanks.
You could try Permute. It's a pretty simple app for converting video and audio. Permute is my go-to for quick video conversion.
DBPowerAmp has an easy-to-use audio converter that supports pretty much every audio format and does batch file conversion as well. DBPowerAmp is my go-to for audio conversion.
Both of these are paid apps.
Thanks, I'll check those out.
I can’t comment on the others, but PDF to JPEG should be easy enough. ImageMagick, which another commenter suggested, is possible but not user friendly. However you can just open the PDF in many applications and export it as an image. Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop can do it. GIMP probably too.
I’m a last ditch effort you can even just open the file and screenshot it.
Open/Libreoffice can do that too
Video and audio conversion can be done with Handbrake or Shutter Encoder, both are nice GUIs
Handbrake won't load the file and Shutter won't even open. But thank you.
In Windows, Foobar2000 does easy audio file conversions, once you have installed the relevant codecs.