The conversion of rows video is an operation in which, sooner or later, all the fans of computer science attempt. To such purpose one of the certain advantages of the platform windows has been, from always, the possibility to use graphical interfaces preconstituted that they rendered intuitive the operations of conversion between the several formats. Task to es. to the Super program, real WinFF.
The installation on ubuntu is simplest, enough to make the download of the package deb and to install it with the manager. The program puts on hand of default various preset (says the word to it, “pre-set up models of conversion”; to. es. for ipod, or dvd, or psp), but the possibility is had however to create itself some of own.

P.S. In order to work it is necessary to install ffmpeg from the repo of Medibuntu, because that one distributed with ubuntu does not work (lacks some codec owners):

# Medibuntu
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free
deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free

wget http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg - Or | I sudo apt-key add -

I sudo apt-get update && I sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

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