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I thought VLC 1.1.10-2mcr was the mepis one, not the debian. But I knew some version of ffmpeg didn't play well with each other. I thought Mepis version of vlc needed the debian ffmpeg to be able to do mp3. I do have mencoder installed, since soundconverter couldn't do it either, even though I installed g-lame-something or other (I have lame, twolame everylame I could find trying to get this to work) that I must be missing something else. To get VLC to convert .flv to .mp3 what version of vlc and what version of ffmpeg should I use? I'm sorry, looks like I misunderstood a post or two. If I try for pacpl, what version of things should I look for in synaptic to get them to work right?
Thanks Stevo!

The last couple of versions of vlc, I've just been backporting the upstream Debian versions, which have limited ability to transcode anything. Let me see what pacpl would like:

steve@mepis1:~$ apt-cache depends pacpl
pacpl
Depends: perl
Depends: libcddb-get-perl
Depends: libogg-vorbis-header-perl
Depends: libmp3-tag-perl
Depends: libmp4-info-perl
Depends: libaudio-flac-header-perl
Depends: libaudio-musepack-perl
Depends: libaudio-wma-perl
Suggests: konqueror
Suggests: dolphin
Suggests: kommander
Recommends: cdparanoia
Recommends: faad
Recommends: ffmpeg
Recommends: flac
Recommends: flake
Recommends: mplayer
mplayer-nogui
Recommends: mppenc
Recommends: sndfile-programs
Recommends: sox
Recommends: speex
Recommends: twolame
Recommends: vorbis-tools
Recommends: wavpack[code][/code]

Actually, lame from Debian-multimedia is supposed to be better for mp3 files and may substitute for twolame. You need one of those two to create mp3 files. I guess I was mistaken about mencoder, it does not use it.

There's a setting in Synaptic to auto-install all recommended packages, which is a good idea with pacpl or a program like Inkscape if you want all features enabled.

I do use pacpl quite a bit to rip audio tracks off of downloaded .flv files to mp3 files, so I know it works fine with that. The Squeeze version doesn't have a clue what to do with webm files, though.

Hmmm--I took a look at the upstream changelog, and it says twolame produces mp2 files, not mp3, so you should be using lame as the encoder, then:

Oh Stevo! That is TOO slick! It also pulled in (after I changed the setting you mentioned in synaptic) libimage-exiftool-perl, libinline-perl, libio-string-perl, libmp3-info-perl, libparse-recdescent-perl, libsox-fmt-alsa, libsox-fmt-base, libunicode-string-perl and sndfile-tools.
I can't believe how FAST it converted! Forget VLC, Kaffeine plays everything fine, and pacpl can convert.
Thanks so much, you rock!
HEY! Why isn't there a green button under your name???

That one's on me.

Some have transcended beyond the need for such material measures such as rep points. Either that or richb disabled them...

Yes, we are now on a 'Higher Plain'.

Anyway, maybe pacpl can be mentioned in the manual as a tool for converting and ripping audio tracks. It's so quick and easy to use.

Bump: Latest version 1.1.12 now in testing main CR. Now with full transcoding, including h.264.

I had to switch synaptic to prefer highest version but I updated ffmpeg and vlc and all my videos are playing well (mts, mov, avi, mp4, m4v, flv).

After that I switched synaptic back to prefer MEPIS. That's cool right?

Thanks!