RE: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
info mplayer is your friend... -Original Message- From: Serena Cantor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:06 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file? I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can play .flv file and real media file. I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has several .flv files. I want to convert them to a single real media file. Which command shall I use? Thanks! (Mplayer's document is too long, I don't have time to read it) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
Hi Serena, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, mencoder can encode .flv. See its usage page: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-selecting-codec.html At the end of the web page above, it has an example how to convert a avi file to a .flv flash file. Thanks! You're right. I remember reading somewhere that mencoder couldn't join .flv files, but apparently that was outdated or incorrect info. But as I was happy with output in .avi I didn't bother to look any further. Now I downloaded two small cartoons from YouTube and managed to join the two .flv files with the following command: mencoder in1.flv in2.flv -o out.flv -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -srate 22050 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=500:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3 -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames However, it took mencoder a considerable amount of time and the output file was more than triple size of the two input files. Using: mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -idx -o out.avi in1.flv in2.flv goes way much faster and results in an output file slightly larger than double size of the two input files. Maybe fine tuning the opts results in smaller file size (and quality loss??) for .flv, but please don't ask me :-) Comparing the output, .avi equals .flv and for both I find no real quality loss compared with the original files. So I'll stick with .avi for now, but it might come in handy some day if I really need .flv output. Greetings, Manon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
I install avidemux, it doesn't work. It seems to me that avidemux supports only avi and mpeg format. --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 10:24 PM Woman's prerogative? :) Google says that avidemux File-append works. On 10/23/08 21:17, Serena Cantor wrote: Now I change mind, real media format does not save disk space, compared with .flv. So my question change to : how to combine several .flv files to a single .flv file? Thank Ron Johnson anyway! --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 10:11 PM On 10/23/08 20:05, Serena Cantor wrote: I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can play .flv file and real media file. I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has several .flv files. I want to convert them to a single real media file. Which command shall I use? Thanks! (Mplayer's document is too long, I don't have time to read it) Googling for ffmpeg convert flv to rm returns some seemingly helpful links. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
Maybe the Debian version is crippled by the need to be DFSG-pure? On 10/24/08 01:53, Serena Cantor wrote: I install avidemux, it doesn't work. It seems to me that avidemux supports only avi and mpeg format. --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 10:24 PM Woman's prerogative? :) Google says that avidemux File-append works. On 10/23/08 21:17, Serena Cantor wrote: Now I change mind, real media format does not save disk space, compared with .flv. So my question change to : how to combine several .flv files to a single .flv file? Thank Ron Johnson anyway! --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 10:11 PM On 10/23/08 20:05, Serena Cantor wrote: I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can play .flv file and real media file. I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has several .flv files. I want to convert them to a single real media file. Which command shall I use? Thanks! (Mplayer's document is too long, I don't have time to read it) Googling for ffmpeg convert flv to rm returns some seemingly helpful links. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
Hi Serena, On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can play .flv file and real media file. I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has several .flv files. I want to convert them to a single real media file. Which command shall I use? Thanks! I had the same problem a while ago. After some googling I ended up with the following solution: $: mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -idx -o out.avi in1.flv in2.flv in3.flv etc... I used it to join some 12 .flv files into one single .avi file of approx. the same size as all twelve added up. As I understood it well, mencoder cannot output .flv format (but a lot of other formats indeed). For me there was no reason to convert the out.avi to out.flv, using ffmpeg, as it only results in poorer quality. Besides that, I found ffmpeg deleting some frames while converting. So I stuck with the .avi file. I use ffplay on the command line to watch the .avi video (ffplay is part of the ffmpeg package): $: ffplay -x 640 -y 480 out.avi If you ensist on having a .flv file, you can use ffmpeg like this: $: ffmpeg -i out.avi -sameq out.flv Greetings, Manon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
Thanks a lot! I use the command you offer. There are many issues to be solved. I use mplayer to play it. I have not installed ffmpeg. Mplayer can't forward seek when playing it. vlc play only video, not sound. Besides, mencoder can encode .flv. See its usage page: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-selecting-codec.html At the end of the web page above, it has an example how to convert a avi file to a .flv flash file. --- On Fri, 10/24/08, Manon Metten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Manon Metten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 9:38 PM Hi Serena, On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can play .flv file and real media file. I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has several .flv files. I want to convert them to a single real media file. Which command shall I use? Thanks! I had the same problem a while ago. After some googling I ended up with the following solution: $: mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -idx -o out.avi in1.flv in2.flv in3.flv etc... I used it to join some 12 .flv files into one single .avi file of approx. the same size as all twelve added up. As I understood it well, mencoder cannot output .flv format (but a lot of other formats indeed). For me there was no reason to convert the out.avi to out.flv, using ffmpeg, as it only results in poorer quality. Besides that, I found ffmpeg deleting some frames while converting. So I stuck with the .avi file. I use ffplay on the command line to watch the .avi video (ffplay is part of the ffmpeg package): $: ffplay -x 640 -y 480 out.avi If you ensist on having a .flv file, you can use ffmpeg like this: $: ffmpeg -i out.avi -sameq out.flv Greetings, Manon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can play .flv file and real media file. I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has several .flv files. I want to convert them to a single real media file. Which command shall I use? Thanks! (Mplayer's document is too long, I don't have time to read it) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
On 10/23/08 20:05, Serena Cantor wrote: I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can play .flv file and real media file. I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has several .flv files. I want to convert them to a single real media file. Which command shall I use? Thanks! (Mplayer's document is too long, I don't have time to read it) Googling for ffmpeg convert flv to rm returns some seemingly helpful links. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
Now I change mind, real media format does not save disk space, compared with .flv. So my question change to : how to combine several .flv files to a single .flv file? Thank Ron Johnson anyway! --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 10:11 PM On 10/23/08 20:05, Serena Cantor wrote: I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can play .flv file and real media file. I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has several .flv files. I want to convert them to a single real media file. Which command shall I use? Thanks! (Mplayer's document is too long, I don't have time to read it) Googling for ffmpeg convert flv to rm returns some seemingly helpful links. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
Woman's prerogative? :) Google says that avidemux File-append works. On 10/23/08 21:17, Serena Cantor wrote: Now I change mind, real media format does not save disk space, compared with .flv. So my question change to : how to combine several .flv files to a single .flv file? Thank Ron Johnson anyway! --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 10:11 PM On 10/23/08 20:05, Serena Cantor wrote: I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can play .flv file and real media file. I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has several .flv files. I want to convert them to a single real media file. Which command shall I use? Thanks! (Mplayer's document is too long, I don't have time to read it) Googling for ffmpeg convert flv to rm returns some seemingly helpful links. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
