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

• dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pandoc for documents, ffmpeg for video , imagemagick for images

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  • prayer@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What image types are you using that ffmpeg can’t convert? To my knowledge it works for almost anything.

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    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gonna be honest, never used ffmpeg for images lol. I take images from PDFs that have transparency and they come out of pdfimages with an opaque greyscale alpha mask and an opaque image. I found it easy to apply the mask with imagemagick, though. Ffmpeg can probably do it but just never had a use case. I just use cwebp to convert because that’s my primary use-case: converting pngs to lossy webp files and cwebp is good enough for me for that:)

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      • prayer@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Images from PDFs, wasn’t thinking about that. I normally work with just image files. Cool!

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• AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What are you looking to convert?

  Usually what i do is look for any converter and look for open source alternatives to it on alternative.net and hopefully one of the top 3 alternatives fits your use case

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  • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Psst the URL is: alternativeto.net I always stop here first to research what software options there are available and also learning what other people are using. Extremely useful and trustworthy site!

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    • AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks i dropped the “to”

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