Cevilia (she/they/…)

Based on our recent interactions, I would say you probably don’t have the expertise necessary to evaluate whether the file’s safe. I very much doubt you’re gonna gain any new knowledge from doing this.

This isn’t a slight against you. I don’t have the expertise, either.

It’s almost as if making one organisation the gatekeeper to a quarter of the internet is a bad idea…

This is way outside of my expertise. I’m not sure you’d find anything VirusTotal’s behaviour checks didn’t find, anyway. Usually, if I’m at all unsure, I just won’t run it.

You may have to mount the iso first before a virus scanner would scan it. Which I would advise against doing on a machine you care about. And even then, it might not scan the suspect files anyway, a lot of scanners will only check files with certain extensions.

Otherwise you could just run it in a virtual machine with no network connections and see if anything sus happens. But it might not happen right away, or it might detect the VM and not trigger any malware.

These are ways you can gather information to make an informed decision, but ultimately you may just have to decide whether you trust the source enough to roll the dice. Only you can make that decision.

You’re welcome, the collaborative effort wins again :)

Termux will accept files “shared” to it, and pass the full filename to ~/bin/termux-file-editor

So, if it’s the only thing you plan to use Termux for, you could make your ~/bin/termux-file-editor something like:

#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg -i "$1" -b:a 320k "$1.mp3"

…and then never think about it again, just share files via Termux and it’ll re-encode them for you. :)

or, if you don’t specifically need CBR and just want ffmpeg to output on its highest quality:

#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg -i "$1" -q:a 0 "$1.mp3"

I’m not sure of the exact syntax, but hope this at least helps point you in the right direction :)

One other thing to try: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper (presumably also available for other browsers). Then hold shift while you reload the page, and play the media. Chances are extremely good the addon will catch it and start dancing in your toolbar. Open the addon, click the file you want to download, and it should just download.