Last Updated or created 2023-02-14

Old files, own created stuff, downloaded stuff. Sometimes there are no viewers anymore, or you thrown devices away.

(I will add to this when i find more information)

These are the tools i’ve used to convert them to a newer format.

NOTE: Converting will always impact the quality

IMAGES

LBM (amiga)

ilbmtoppm < test.LBM | pnmtopng - > test.png

RAM (video files)

ffmpeg -i file.ram file.mp4
or
ffmpeg -i file.ram file.gif

Own DVD’s
NOTE: VOB files are mpg, to keep same quality i use stream copy (-c copy) , besides mpg i´d like to have movies in a web streamable format like MP4, so i DO convert these

ffmpeg -i "concat:VTS_01_1.VOB|VTS_01_2.VOB|VTS_01_3.VOB" -f mpeg -c copy output.mpeg

Flash/SWF

http://www.swffileplayer.com/
https://flasharch.com/en/downloads
.. and record with OBS

AMR ( Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec )

ffmpeg -i folkband.amr -ar 22050 folkband.mp3

3GP

ffmpeg -i pipes.3gp -vcodec h264 -c:a aac pipes.mp4
If your 3gp is recent and has a x264 tag (check with mediainfo)
then you can convert lossless with
ffmpeg -i 10026202.3gp -c:v copy -c:a copy 10026202.mp4

QTVR (need to get a better solution for this)
I’ve used this for rendered scenes

ffmpeg -i ../test.mov %02d.png
ffmpeg -i %02d.png -vf "tile=1x24,transpose=1" qtvrmovie.png

FLV

ffmpeg -i filename.flv -c:v libx264 -crf 19 -strict experimental filename.mp4

WEBP (Not a old media format, but i dont like webp format.)
This script converts to images or animated gif depending on the number of frames

#!/bin/bash


ls *webp |  while read file; do
duration=$(webpinfo -summary "$file" | grep Duration | head -1 |  sed -e 's/.* \([0-9]*\)$/\1/')
frames=$(webpinfo -summary "$file" | grep frames | head -1 |  sed -e 's/.* \([0-9]*\)$/\1/')
if [ "$duration" == "0" ] ; then duration=50 ;fi
echo "DUR $duration : FRM $frames"
dur=$( echo "$duration / 100" | bc )


if [ $frames == "1" ] ; then convert $file png/$file.jpg 
else 
for i in $(seq -f "%05g" 1 $frames)
do
    webpmux -get frame $i $file -o $file.$i.webp
    dwebp $file.$i.webp -o $file.$i.png
done
fi

convert $file.*.png  -colorspace srgb  +dither  -delay $dur -loop 0 gif/$file.gif
rm $file.[0-9]*.png *webp.[0-9]*.webp
done