Joined: Aug 13, 2004 Posts: 335 Location: Maysville, KY
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:31 am Post subject:
here is a way to convert mov files to flv (flash video) for posting on a web page. Why would you want to do that? Well, flash is probably a lot more popular than quicktime files and is more suitable for playing video on web pages than quicktime files. Not only that, flash video will also stream a lot quicker (meaning begin playing) than quicktime. Also, flash videos are much smaller than mov files. For instance, I converted a 71.7MB mov video with sound to flv and the resulting flv file was only 4.0mb.
Although I normally hate flash videos, now that the beta flash 9 is out for linux, the compatibility issues that plagued us Linux users are pretty much non-existant.
Using the linux ffmpeg package, here is the command to convert the video:
You will notice that there is a message about lame output buffer too small and although this is not a major error, you will find that audio at only 8000 Hz is way too distorted. So what I did to overcome this was to change the command to this:
The -ar option changes the output audio to 22050 Hz which is much more acceptable. For examples of both and to hear the difference for yourself, see this link (if you are unable to hear the audio in firefox on Linux, this has to do with using gplflash or flash 7 so try the beta flash 9 for linux, ot try it in konqueror which also works fine for me):
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