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+WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will
+convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does
+multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example
+convert mpeg's, flv's, and mov's, all into avi's all at once.
+
+lazarus is just a build-time dependency.
+
+NOTE:
+If you have a previous ~/.winff directory you might want to
+remove it or your presets might not be updated.
+
+WinFF is no longer maintained by the original author. It is currently
+maintained by Debian maintainer Paul Gevers and the website winff.org
+has been hijacked. See the following post for details:
+https://github.com/WinFF/winff/issues/250
+
+I've patched the link for the FFmpeg Windows build website in the
+about section to point it to correct website as mentioned on the
+FFmpeg website. See the following link for details:
+https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-windows
+
+The Launchpad link no longer works and I've patched it to point to
+the WinFF Debian maintainer's [Paul Gevers] page. I've made sure other
+websites link to the https version.
+
+There was also an issue with opening the documentation in Slackware.
+The path to the documetation is hardcoded in the source file.
+I've patched it to look in the /usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION directory.
+
+I've patched winff to use xdg-open to use the user's default
+PDF viewer.
+
+This build now uses qt5, hence libqtpas is now a dependency. Install
+libqtpas before installing lazarus.