Video format => *.flv

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:14:26 +0100
"Steve Flynn" <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/10/06, Ricardo C O Freitas <ricardocastanho at uol.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > Are you trying to transform a .flv to another format? If so you don't
> > > want an encoder for flv, that would make an .flv from something else.
> >
> > Yes! that's it!
> >
> > I can watch them all right but people without mplayer can't!
> > (like windoes users!)
> 
> 
> Try VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) to re-encode them. Also, I'd be quite
> surprised if it doesn't play them (both on Linux and Windows and Macs). It's
> what I use and I've yet to find a format it can't play.
> 
I just tried an *.flv here using ffmpeg to change to .mpg format

 ffmpeg -i day-of-the-long-tail.flv test.mpg

 $ file test.mpg
test.mpg: MPEG sequence, v1, system multiplex

The .flv doesn't play in vlc, the test.mpg does.

Tried it on another flv to check synchronisation ( lip-sync etc) and it
seems to do OK - maybe there are a few command line options that can be
tweaked, i haven't checked - but ffmpeg can change flv to .mpg at least,
and I assume most people can play that...

By the way, you can play *'flv using the "ffplay" player that comes with
ffmpeg.

You can also convert to Ogg Theora, but that isn't much use for Windows
prisoners I guess, unless they install something like vlc :)

Peter