Got it! ffmpeg! => Re: Video format => *.flv

[Ricardo C O Freitas]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 19:14, Peter Garrett wrote:

That was it! THANKS!!!!!

VLC was not able to play .flc!

But ffmpeg solved the issue! Damn fast!

Now, after some fast coding I will be free from this users!

Ricardo

> 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

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