Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware

• vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  PDF to JPEG

  Don’t most pdf viewers have an export to image option?

  AVC to MP4

  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?

  OPUS to MP3

  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.

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  • AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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)

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t most pdf viewers have an export to image option?

    Don’t know, I never looked! But I will, thanks.

    Do you actually have files with an .avc extension?

    Yes

    Audacity will convert these just fine, though doesn’t really do bulk conversion.

    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.

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Video and audio conversion can be done with Handbrake or Shutter Encoder, both are nice GUIs

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Handbrake won’t load the file and Shutter won’t even open. But thank you.

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• ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Foobar2000 is good with audio file conversions, once you have installed the relevant codecs.

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• kipo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks, I’ll check those out.

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• kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  imagemagick handles almost all image files

  images ) ls
  001.jpg  002.jpg  003.jpg  004.jpg  005.jpg
  images ) convert 001.jpg example.pdf
  

  ffmpeg handles almost all video files

  ex ) ls
  rock.mp4
  ex ) ffmpeg -i rock.mp4 rock.avi
  

  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)

  #!/usr/bin/env fish
  set file $argv[1]
  convert $file (basename $file .png).pdf
  

  then when you right click on a file in your gnome file explorer you can click the scripts option

  example

  and the script is right there so you can just easily convert with the press of a button

  example

  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

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  • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thats a pretty sweet feature in gnome. Ill need to see if there is something similar for kde

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• zerofk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • shottymcb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Open/Libreoffice can do that too

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• T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t have the knowledge or the time to learn to use these tools.

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    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is indeed very difficult to type convert 001.jpg example.pdf and ffmpeg -i rock.mp4 rock.avi

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        convert 001.jpg example.pdf and ffmpeg -i rock.mp4 rock.avi

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        TYPE IT WHERE!? WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS INFORMATION!? How are you so completely unaware at how non-sensical this information is?

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Then I suppose you’re up shit creek.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks for that deep analysis.

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