Converter

converter for different needs:

searching for the fastest and most memory saving open code to do that, suggestions?

text

* html2pdf
* pdf2html
* html2ascii filename pdf2text
* ps2ascii
* pstotext
* pdftops
* ascii -> postscript a2ps
* ascii -> pdf
* .doc to postscripts

audio

* wav -> mp3 lame
* wav -> ogg 'oggenc (part of vorbis-tools debian package)
* wma -> mp3 wma2mp3 script unsing mplayer and lame
* wma -> ogg (same as wma2mp3, just pipe the command to the oggencoder)
* mp3 change bitrate

image

* jpg -> png (imagemagick, convert rose.jpg rose.png)
* gif -> png (imagemagick ,http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php)
* png -> jpg ( " )
* resize (imagemagick)
* colors  (imagemagick)

-> Generally, for images Imagemagick can do (almost) anything.

database

* sql -> mdb
* mdb -> sql
* ex -> sql
* 

video

 * avi -> mpg
 * avi -> svcd
 * avi -> dvd 
 * dvd -> wob -> avi
 * mplayer --v caca
 * transcode
 * mencoder 
 * wmv [[Windows Media Player]]-> [[xvid]] avi = [[mencoder]] (mencoder -ovc wanted_videocodec -oac wanted_audiocodec wmvfile.wmv -o avifile.avi)
 * wma [[Windows Media Player]]-> [[ogg]] = (look in audio)
 * [[example wmv->avi]]



help, this doesnt work: 
'''shrink avi'''
transcode -i "test.avi"   -y mov -w 1152 -V -o "out.avi"   


* mencoder : shrink avi 
mencoder -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts bitrate=1000 -lameopts
               abr:br=128 -o out.avi test.avi

Microsoft > Free

Office

* doc (Word)-> ASCII,Postscript = antiword, catdoc
* xls (Excel)-> ASCII,MySQL = xls2csv, catdoc, [Intelligent Converters] (non-free)
* mdb (Access)-> ASCII,MySQL = [navicat] (non-free)
* ppt (Powerpoint) -> ASCII = catppt, catdoc