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[drummer83]

Hello community!

I was sitting several days in front of my EeePC 701 and I tried and searched and I searched and tried... So, if we can solve this problem, this would be absolutely fantastic.

The problem: I want to convert short (!!!) movies (about 1 Min.), which are AVCHD (.mts or .m2ts) from my camcorder, to Flash-Videos, so I can use them in a Video-Blog.

What I tried:
- I used synaptic to install ffmpeg from this repoitory: deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/4.0/pkg/ xandros4.0-xn main contrib non-free
- I downloaded and installed the Debian-Version of winff from htp://www.winff.org, which is a GUI for ffmpeg
- I got the error "unrecognized option -'flags' ", when I tried to convert a video -> google hardly finds any results for this message
- I tried different things, even compiling ffmpeg myself, but this ended up in a mess, since I have got no experience in Linux and compiling.

- I now restored the factory settings of my EeePC and I hope you can help me.

Who I am: an absolute Linux-Newbie. That's why I'm asking you to switch to the "my grandma has to understand this"-mode in your explanations. Thanks a lot.

So, I am searching for a way to install a ffmpeg as new as possible (because of the AVCHD support) and a GUI.

I hope we can do it!!!

Thanks in advance.

[Doctore]

Hi drummer83 and welcome to "Xandros" user forums!

"Debian" has many version: "Stable" (Etch), "Testing" (Lenny) and "Unstable" (Sid).
Plus "Experimental" packages. More here: http://www.debian.org/releases/

On "EeePC Forum & Wiki": http://forum.eeeuser.com/ are the WRONG (!) repositories
recommended, those for the old "Xandros 4.0-4.2" which was based "Old Stable" (Sarge),
when the new "EeePC" is based on "Debian Stable" (Etch)! Mixing partly incompatible
"Stable" and "Old Stable" packages without recompiling/converting leads to trouble...

Remember that "Xandros EeePC", "Desktop 4.5" and "Server 2.0" are all based
on "Debian Stable" (Etch). Read more here about which repositories to use:
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?p=213699&highlight=#213699

An very usable trick here:
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=33654

And where to get some suitable applications:
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=33670
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[drummer83]

Ok, thank you so far.

I now included these two repos:

# DEBIAN STABLE (ETCH) repository:
# deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

# DEBIAN MULTIMEDIA (ETCH) repository:
# deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ stable main

In the multimedia repo I found ffmpeg and I installed. As I didn't find winff in the repos, I installed it by downloading from the homepage again.

Now I can convert videos. This is fine. But unfortunately I can't convert my .mts-files. I get this error message:

[drummer83]

Ok, I found a HOWTO here: http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Installing_svn_ffmpeg_on_a_Debian_based_distro which tells me how to install the svn ffmpeg. Doesn't work for me unfortunately.

Problem:

When typing apt-get build-dep ffmpeg
I get the message, that I have to write more sources into the sources.list

How do I know which package is needed, and where to find it???

Please, help me.

Thanks.