Best Video Converter for Zorin

General Help
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Anyone have any suggestions for the best Video Converter for Zorin?

Many Thanks in Advance

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I have been using HandBrake in both Windows and Linux and quite happy with it:

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Thank You French Press, but to install I just open a terminal?

And which one do I install?

Thanks in advance....

4

The easiest way to install it is search for HandBrake in Software.

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The top one is Flatpak and the second one is Snap installer.

But if you are like me and others on this forum, installing from the terminal is a preferable method. Because of the sandboxing nature of Snap and Flatpak, you may encounter a problem such as inability to access external disks or mounted volumes. It is a deal breaker for me, since I keep all multimedia files in an external large capacity SSD.

To install HandBrake properly, open terminal (ctrl + alt + T)

  1. Add repository for HandBrake:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
  1. Update package list in your system:
sudo apt update
  1. Install HandBrake and possible dependencies:
sudo apt install --install-recommends handbrake-gtk
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"E: Unable to locate package handbrake-gtk"

Dunno why this happened....

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as you said, i also wanted to try HandBrake , but,.....

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original video is of 85MB but after compressing it by HandBrake,
i got a file of 136MB :disappointed:
is there any setting to make it correct ?

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I just run the whole command on my fresh install of Zorin 16.
Everything went fine as it should.

Did you run

sudo apt update

before the installation command?

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You might want to check this tutorial:

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I think you are replying to my comment for @Stanko1 .
I was giving her/him the advice for how to install it in a proper PPA method.

For you, my advice is to refer the tutorial for video compression in HandBrake.

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Yes.

Same thing happened again too...

12

Are you using Zorin 15 or 16?

I will ask @Aravisian for help.
Hopefully he see this flag. He is way more knowledgable than myself for such software issues.

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To install handbrake-gtk:
try:

sudo apt install --install-recommends handbrake

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Handbrake is probably the well-known video transcoder you can rely on.