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[web] Video to flash convertors

Started by Sander Sep 4, 2006 at 11:44 AM 4 replies 2.8k views

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Sep 4, 2006 at 11:44 AM

I am looking for an application that can convert various video formats to flash video's as seen on Google Video or YouTube for example (preferably with adding the nice playback controls as well). Must be flash 7 or earlier as I run Linux (which doesn't have Flash 8 yet). Does anyone know of such an application? One that can run stand-alone on Linux, powered by a script is preferred, but UI powered Windows payware applications are welcome too. I'm just trying to find out what's out there.

Wan

Sep 4, 2006 at 11:53 AM

I know a co-worker of mine has used FFmpeg for this, and the results are pretty good (at least on a Windows server).
You can look here for a brief explanation.

Sander

Sep 4, 2006 at 2:56 PM

That looks very interesting. I'd have to move out the drupal specific stuff of that, but it looks like the entire toolchain can work fine on a linux box.

Rob Loach

Sep 4, 2006 at 3:34 PM

Yup, FFmpeg is the way to go. If you get the right command line arguments, you're set to convert pretty much any video format. The great thing about it is that you can setup a batch file to convert your standard AVI video to all the video formats you need.

Sander

Sep 4, 2006 at 4:17 PM

I'm actually going to hook it to an upload form so a user can upload any format he wants and then view it on the website in Flash 7. User in this context not being Joe Random like Google Video or YouTube, but a CMS admin that wants to embed video in his pages like he can with images.

Sander

Sep 4, 2006 at 6:26 PM

It took a recompile of ffmpeg to get mp3 support, but now I actually got the basic toolchain working. I just created my first flash video :-)

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