transcode FLV (YouTube flash) to MP4 (ISO MPEG v4)

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun Aug 10 22:26:05 UTC 2008


On 08/10/2008 02:12 PM, komputes wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:05 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>>>     
>>>> I can only get the flv to save as MP4 video only - no sound.
> I have the same result using VLC. Has a bug been reported for this 
> issue? I found the following vlc forum post thread with (what seems to 
> be) the same issue:
> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=42456&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Don't know.

> 
> No matter what type of transcoding I try on the audio the output has no 
> audio.
> 
> My workaround, I have tried ffmpeg which has worked and given me an 
> FFmpeg MPEG-4 encoded video. Put the flv in  your home directory and 
> using the terminal issue the following command:
> 
> $ ffmpeg -i your_flv_video.flv output_name.avi
> 

I use the WinFF ffmpeg frontend GUI which makes it quite easy. It
basically does the same as your command line, but within the GUI you can
also select multiple files & output types. Very easy to use.

http://www.winff.org/






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