<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Saturday 04 April 2009 20:01:04 Ed Hurst wrote:<br>
> Fred A. Miller wrote:<br>
> >> Let's suppose I have a good Christian video in WMV format. I can<br>
> >> play it like any savvy Linux user, but I want it open to a wider<br>
> >> audience. What might I use to convert the file to another video<br>
> >> format, and what format would you suggest?<br>
> ><br>
> > Well, with ffmpeg you can create an avi....command line and VERY<br>
> > programmable.<br>
><br>
> Probably the best choice. Can anyone help me wade through the various<br>
> flags for ffmpeg so I get the best product? I've used it for<br>
> stripping sound tracks out of stuff, but that was based on a script I<br>
> got from someone right here on the list.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Here is what I have successfully used recently:<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>ffmpeg -i test.mpg -deinterlace -ar 44100 -r 25 -qmin 3 -qmax 6 \<br>
-s 640x480 -b 150000 -ab 22050 test.flv<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>The source was "test.mpg", it can be anything; the destination is "test.flv". The above bitrate settings do give me very high-quality on my lowest-echelon 200 kbps Cox Cablevision broadband.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I tested a fairly wide variety of formats for WWW use before settling on FLV. FLV seems to have the widest general compatibility right now. <br>
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