From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Subject: Re: WIBNI
Date: 27 Aug 1999 14:56:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ogftf15o.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "27 Aug 1999 21:19:31 +0200"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
>
> > Would be cool to have generic mime-type converting though. You could
> > extend the logic in images.el to arbitrary MIME types pretty easily though.
> > You might want to add a 'quality' parameter though, so that we don't just
> > blindly choose the shortest chain but at a lower total quality output.
>
> If tools existed for documents comparable to the netpbm collection, then
> it would be very interesting. Say -- something that converted from "any"
> document format to (*ick*) RTF, and then from RTF to "any" other document
> format.
>
> If all we have is mswordview, then it would still be fun, but less useful
> to create a generic framework for this stuff.
>
> On the other hand... We're not just talking documents and images here.
> Convertion of sound from format to format? Video? Hm.
SOX rocks! It could take care of the sound->sound stuff. I don't know of
any video converters though.
-Bill P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-27 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-14 9:52 WIBNI Lee Willis
1999-07-14 13:16 ` WIBNI Doug Bagley
1999-07-14 13:35 ` WIBNI wmperry
1999-08-27 18:19 ` WIBNI Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-08-27 19:05 ` WIBNI William M. Perry
1999-08-27 19:19 ` WIBNI Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-08-27 19:56 ` William M. Perry [this message]
1999-08-30 12:41 ` WIBNI Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-08-27 18:21 ` WIBNI Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-10-11 15:37 WIBNI Lee Willis
1999-11-06 21:51 ` WIBNI Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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