i usually add an new repository this way

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winff.list

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winff.list deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/paul-climbing/ubuntu intrepid main

is there a "GPG" key? I've had trouble in the terminal, so once I actually copied the text of the "GPG" key and put it into a gedit file and saved it and imported it into synaptic.

I have tried to install winff without success... i'm going mad since 2 hours :(

started with : sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

added : deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/paul-climbing/ubuntu intrepid main

then reloaded by terminal and by GUI

then looked for the package... with the search etc... can't find it... where is it ?? :(

I also tried hardy and those 2 experimental servers... but can't find it anyhow :( could someone help me please ?? installed mediabuntu without any issue following the procedure.

Oh, and if you go to the site http://ppa.launchpad.net/paul-climbing/ubuntu you can download the .deb by hand and probably install by clicking on it (not the recommended procedure).

The same here, after add repositories and key, there's no WinFF

Same here, no WinFF

optimisme and Jordan.D.Carter: could you please be a little bit more specific? As far is I can test it works. With "there's no WinFF" you mean that synaptic can not find it? What happens if you run the command

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install winff

? Please post the output in a new bug (under the "issues" tag).

Thanks for this software and instructions for intrepid... finally able to mass convert my flv files to mp3. Previously tried VLC but the sound came out scrambled.

I have come across the same problem of optimisme and Jordan.D.Carter. (I am using Xubuntu 8.10).

After following the instructions in the "Synaptic" section above, the Synaptic Package Manager cannot find WinFF.

However the command by poipodec "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install winff" works for me (note: need to exit the Synaptic Package Manager for the command to work) and WinFF is then shown under the Multimedia menu.

fantalog.. can you confirm that after you run my commands winff shows up in synaptic?

Hi, I was having problems installing too, but I finally got it to work by messing around a bit. I don't remember everything I did, but I do know that I had to install ffmpeg before it finally worked for me. So do that before installing winff? I could have just gotten lucky too, I'm new to this stuff.

hello, i'm french i 'm lookink for how to install winff without any problem; it's almost the 5th time i trie without success; the program seems good, but the problem is about the codecs and i always have the same answer "unknowned encoder xxxx" where xxxx is the name of an encoder i've installed from differents sources with no success....so please help me or if yu know another one good tell where i can find it thanks a lot.......and good year.....

@ alain.fl...@orange.fr

What version of Ubuntu are you running? Which version of winff did you install? Did you (need to) install one of the libavcodec-unstripped libraries? ffmpeg uses its own codecs (they are compiled for ffmpeg) and not other encoders in Ubuntu.

Hi there,

I've been days now trying to install Winff unsuccessfully...

I am following the path described at http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/winff, and my problems seem to begin when I do the "Synaptic Menu-Setting-Repositories" thing : I get a message that says "W: GPG error: http://winff.org intrepid Release: Les signatures suivantes n'ont pas pu être vérifiées car la clé publique n'est pas disponible : NO_PUBKEY 1CD52D7BAAFE086A". The ubuntu-fr.org says it's no big deal - and maybe that's not my problem -, but when I keep doing the installation and go to the Synaptic Menu to reload the whole thing, it does reload files, but never Winff, I've been doing it over and over, from scratch, but Winff never shows.

I am an absolute beginner at Linux and am restricted to the graphic mode at this point :-), could anyone help me ?

Thanks a bunch !

FYI, those install instructions labeled under the "Synaptic" section are actually instructions for Adept installer. The Synaptic method would be slightly different.

@ pir...@free.fr

Did you run follow the instructions on this page regarding the gpg key? Take a look at the first pictures. Please let me know if it is still not working, maybe you can help me to finally solve this as more people seem to experience the same problem. Can you open a new issue at http://code.google.com/p/winff/issues/list if it still doesn't work?

im having problems too

Los siguientes paquetes tienen dependencias incumplidas:

winff: Depende: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.1) pero 2.12.9-3ubuntu5 va a ser instalado

Depende: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.21.6) pero 1.20.5-0ubuntu1 va a ser instalado

@ hmnet1

What version of Ubuntu are you running and which flavor of winff did you try to install, you may have chosen the wrong match?

Maybe you need to activate the hardy-updates or intrepid-updates in your package manager to get the updated version of libgtk2 and libpango.

I was having problems too, but by running this command WINFF was installed

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install winff

I have Ubu 8.10 64bits, and I hope it did not overwrite the flash installation since I spent a lot of time figuiring out how to install flash for 64 bits.

Thanks for the help

Symantic in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) has a bug that prevents Winff from showing up in "Quick search". Winff shows up fine if you click the "Seach" icon in Symantic first, and enter Winff in the subsequent window.

Details of the bug are <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/288797">here</a>.

Very very cool app. 10/10

when I try to install it it says: Error:Dependency is not satisfiable:libgtk2.0-0 can you help me please?

@K.B.Nieuwendijk

(Are you Dutch?) Please explain what version of Ubuntu you have and what version of winff you tried to install. It looks like you don't have the updates activated. Maybe you need to activate the hardy-updates or intrepid-updates in your package manager to get the updated version of libgtk2.

Hi,

I'm in the same situation than K.B.Nieuwendijk and hmnet1. How can I get the updated version of libgtk2 ?

Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2 Release: 8.04 Codename: hardy My version of libgtk2.0-0 is 2.12.9-3ubuntu5 And I did updates. Is it easily possible to get a version of libgtk2.0-0 >= 2.14.1 ? And the same with libpango1.0-0 >= 1.21.6 ?

Thanks ! (I'm french, may be, sorry for mistakes)

Florent

Hi,

is there a deb of winff compatible with Ubuntu Gutsy? tHx,

minopausa.

@minopausa, unfortunately not. WinFF can not be build on Gutsy because the compiler is not available and dependencies are to high.

@flor...@l214.com It looks like you try to install the WinFF version for Intrepid on your Hardy system. Please use the Hardy repository. I would not recommend upgrading the libgtk2.0-0 and libpango1.0-0 libraries. Please let me know if this does not solve your problem.

Mea Culpa. I just saw that I have a mistake in the script that provides the Package files. It leaves an old unsupported file. I will fix this problem tonight.

The problem with the wrong versions of WinFF for Hardy should now be solved. Maybe also users of intrepid experience an update now. Again, sorry for the mistake.

@poipodec...@hotmail.com Right ! Many thanks. I was to empress to test and didn't read the line "Of course you need to change intrepid to hardy or jaunty if you have that. (You can also just add the line to /etc/apt/sources.list .)" I did mechanical copy past.

Florent

I am a complete newbie with less than a weeks experience and I had no drama getting this installed and up and running...it is brilliant app and the instructions are easy to follow. I appreciate your effort in creating this and keeping the instructions simple, Thanks....Phil

Linux Mint 64? Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

winff: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0) but 2.14.4-0ubuntu1 is to be installed

@Verlager,

Which version did you try to install (which repository) and what version of Ubuntu do you have? It looks like you need to install winff for a lower version of Ubuntu, e.g. hardy instead of intrepid, or similar.

excellent application, works perfect on my Ubuntu 9.04 , thank You biggmatt.

Great and easy application. I'm running ffmpeg on ubuntu on a remote server (EC2). Any plans to make a web based gui or command line? thanks in advance. rg

no, noplans for web based. There are already many php based scripts for ffmpeg

Hello, I'm having some problems installing the latest version of winff. I'm currently running Ubuntu Hardy (8.04.1) and I have the Medibuntu version of ffmpeg installed. I've downloaded the .deb package but when I tried to install it I receive the same "Error:Dependency is not satisfiable:libgtk2.0-0" message.

Any idea on how to solve the problem??

Thanks!

@ aatorrealba,

You downloaded the wrong .deb (it is not meant for Hardy). Please download the version for Hardy and replace the presets file with this one. Instructions about the replacement are here.

@poipodec

Thanks for your reply. Now I have winff 0.45 installed on my hardy machine. It's working without any problem so far.

Thanks!

@Juliocesar

Gracias men tu ayuda fue increible!!! me costo un pelo xq me salte cosas q no crei importantes pero al linal me lei todos los pasos y furulo todo al pelo!!!

Thanks men your help is great!!!

This Tool is very interesting.... but I 'd to know if is possible to convert a video on the fly, for example, a live streaming...

Many Thanks!

I have Ubuntu 9.04 (i think) and I installed the application using the synaptic package manager, right from the list, and added the extras that the description recommended and now it works perfect.. I'm very new to this operation system and that may explain my simplistic language haha. wawaweewa!

Hello. I followed all of your instructions am running hardy 8.04 and this is the errors I recieve even after reinstalling the gpg file?? GPG error: http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2EBC26B60C5A2783Failed to fetch http://winff.org/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release Unable to find expected entry universe/binary-lpia/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

@eward2695 Because the compiler needed for winff is not available for lpia in Launchpad I can not build the package for lpia. Sorry.

no pubkey , enter this in the terminal: sudo apt-get update 2> /tmp/keymissing; for key in $(grep "NO_PUBKEY" /tmp/keymissing |sed "s/.NO_PUBKEY //"); do echo -##e "\nProcessing key: $key"; gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv $key && gpg --export --armor $key | sudo apt-key add -; done

sudo apt-get update 2> /tmp/keymissing; for key in $(grep "NO_PUBKEY" /tmp/keymissing |sed "s/.NO_PUBKEY //"); do echo -##e "\nProcessing key: $key"; gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv $key && gpg --export --armor $key | sudo apt-key add -; done

After running this command (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install winff ) in the terminal I get this following msg:

W: Failed to fetch http://winff.org/ubuntu/dists/Intrepid/Ibex/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://winff.org/ubuntu/dists/Intrepid/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

> W: Failed to fetch http://winff.org/ubuntu/dists/Intrepid/Ibex/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

The path is wrong intrepid is written without capital and Ibex should not be there.

> W: Failed to fetch http://winff.org/ubuntu/dists/Intrepid/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Again intrepid without capital letter.

> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

Were you using an other program at the same time, e.g. Synaptic? Only one package manager is allowed to work at one instant.

Does this work with Karmic?

i am dell i am ubuntu

WinFF just gives me an error message: joona@Joona-PC:~$ winff

WARNING? Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned WARNING? Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF [FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred?

Sender=EAccessViolation Exception=Access violation Stack trace: $00F0AE2E $08290BCD $081BCA9B $081BBCEA $0817AC98 $0817A885 $0817B87A $0817AD75 $0817A885 $0817B87A $0817AD75 $08077CC1 $0807CFAC $0807E069 $0817A885 $0817B87A $080853CE

Stack trace: $00F0AE2E $08290BCD $081BCA9B $081BBCEA $0817AC98 $0817A885 $0817B87A $0817AD75 $0817A885 $0817B87A $0817AD75 $08077CC1 $0807CFAC $0807E069 $0817A885 $0817B87A $080853CE

@john.youtub3 which version of Ubuntu are you running? Are you by any chance already on Lucid? If yes, try the winff from my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~paul-climbing/+archive instead of the winff.org repository. Please give us feedback.

from ppa seems to solve here in debian sid

#&! Doesn't work with 9.10

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

winff: Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.29.3) but 1.28.0-0ubuntu1 is to be installed

@ helpdeskdan

Did you use the karmic repository? It looks like you tried to install the package for Lucid.

I followed the instructions for the Synaptic Package Manager option and got the following error:

Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>=1.29.3) but 1.26.0-0ubuntu2 is to be installed

Recommends: winff-doc but it is not going to be installed

deb http://winff.org/ubuntu jaunty universe

What am I doing wrong? Thank you for your help in advance.

I don't understand how you got that dependency with jaunty. From the winff.org "Package" amd64 file: Depends: ffmpeg, xterm | x-terminal-emulator, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libx11-6 or i386 file: Depends: ffmpeg, xterm | x-terminal-emulator, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libx11-6

Version 1.29.3 is really the dependency of the lucid package... so it seems you have that also somewhere laying around. Try to find it and remove that entry.

@ 0x2cef010? @ 0x7ffff57d19a0? Invalid chars 'v' at the end of expression '4mv' @ 0x2cef010? Unable to parse option value "4mv"

...hmmm....

/rips out everything /reinstalls everything

@ 0x2cef010? @ 0x7ffff57d19a0? Invalid chars 'v' at the end of expression '4mv' @ 0x2cef010? Unable to parse option value "4mv"

/kills self

@ jimmie.hayes Can you please be more specific? What did you do (if relevant, which preset, what OS (and version)?

Please file a bug in our bug-tracker: http://code.google.com/p/winff/issues/list with as much information as possible.

Error : tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winff.list tee: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winff.list: Permission denied

Much easier what to install it using Synaptic simply type in on search:winff and mark it for installation then click apply!

@will

Did you forget the "sudo" part? Did sudo really have no permission?

Anyway, you are right that the easy way is to install the version that comes with Ubuntu, but if you want a newer version or if your version of Ubuntu does not have winff yet, the procedure described here works.

When I try to convert a file the program give an advice that says: "Executable not found: /usr/bin/Xterm"

What do I do?

@ jeissonh...@gmail.com First, what does it say in the edit -> preferences -> Linux -> "Terminal to run ffmpeg in" field?

I assume that you it says /usr/bin/Xterm. First, try to change Xterm to xterm (without the capital X). If that does not work change the line to /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator.

If that last step does not work, what is the output of running "ls /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator" in a terminal window?

works in natty

A small point- Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10) no longer includes library libavcodec-extra-52. I think that the replacement package is now libavcodec-extra-53.

@cm006a5 Thanks for reporting. I noticed this yesterday and am working on updating the packages.

Change the libavcodec-extra-52 to libavcodec-extra-53, because the update