Learn Something New Every Day

Every day, people learn something new that adds some kind of value to their lives. I am going to try to post at one thing that I learn every day. I am a law school graduate, used to do some IT work, and just generally get out and around, so this shouldn’t be too difficult to do, right? We’ll see…
July 27

Convert From 3GP to MOV, AVI, MP4, etc.

Open source audio/video converter FFmpeg will do the trick for converting many video and audio formats.  There is a command line tool, but also GUIs:

I also found a bunch of how-tos:

How to convert from 3GP to MP4, AVI in the command line: http://coreygilmore.com/blog/2010/03/05/use-ffmpeg-to-encode-a-3gp-video-to-more-portable-formats/

FFmpeg lets you do a bunch of conversions with audio and video files, check it out.