[OSX-Users] Re: mac tool to convert video to .flv

[Vladimiro Sassone]

On 5 Aug 2010, at 10:29, m.c. schraefel wrote:
> Know of any tools that will convert quicktime, avi etc to flash (.flv)??

In my view, the absolutely top-in-class is FFmpeg, which is open source and --I'm afraid-- command-line only (FFmpegX is just a GUI around some quite old version of FFmpeg). You have to make sure you understand the difference between a media container (such as eg FLV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, OGM....) and codecs (such as eg MPEG2, DIVX, H264, DIRAC..., AAC, ALAC, MP3, VORBIS, ...) 

The complexity of the task depends on which of the two you want to change. From the way you formulated your question, it looks to me as though you want to "repackage" some media contents from a AVI or MOV container to a FLV container. In this case, the FFmpeg command can be as simple as 

	ffmpeg -i original_file.avi -vcodec copy -acodec copy new_file.flv

Just go to http://ffmpeg.org/, download the source from SVN or GIT repository, compile it, and run it.

Cheers,
\vs
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