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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.