Convert Video Formats Using FFMPEG

Discussion

1. Sylvain

   You can use WinFF, it’s an other GUI for ffmpeg with presets. It works for Linux and Windows.
2. David Walsh

   @Sylvain: Thanks for sharing that. I still prefer the command line — it’s faster and you can’t easily automate the GUI.
3. Alex

   I have it configured like this:
   ./configure –enable-libtheora –enable-libvorbis
   and am using the following command to create open videos for the new firefox 3.5 (3.1+) video tag:
   ffmpeg -i sourcefile_ie.wmv -acodec libvorbis -vcodec libtheora finalfile_the.ogv

   Some ffmpeg documentation:
   http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html
4. adamnfish

   Awesome, thanks David.

   If you’re on Windows, get Super. It’s a deeply ugly program, but it is awesomely powerful. Basically, it’s a GUI wrapper for a number of command line tools (including ffmpeg and others) and picks which tools to use depending on your input and output settings. Any format you’ve heard of and many you haven’t.

   Super’s websiteand here’s the actual link to the file (finding it on the website is not easy…Super setup
5. Binny V A

   Here is my collection of useful FFMPEG commands. I have done this for Linux – but should work on mac as well.
6. David Walsh

   Awesome tips Binny V A! Everyone check out Binny’s link!
7. Wes

   For mac, I use this GUI:

   http://www.ffmpegx.com/
8. Vince

   Is it possible to convert to .mov?
9. Alex

   @Vince:
   I think http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=561087 has your answer:

   “To encode a .mov you’ll need to use the target option.”

   ffmpeg -i input.avi -target X output.mov
   Where X stands for a target type as defined in the FFmpeg docs
10. Ronny

    I get this on my Mac: sudo: port: command not found

    Why?
11. Ronny's Concious

    @Ronny: You need to install MacPorts: http://www.macports.org/
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13. abdulla

    I have converted video to FLV format. But the problem is File size is
    0kb.

    So, Am not getting any perfect solution on this. IF any one knows Pls help me.
14. Ronald Nicholls

    @David Walsh: I’m trying to use ffmpeg on my website to dynamically ge t thumbnails created of flv fils, but it doesn’t seem to work out that well. i have checked the php.info and made sure its installed correctly, but i was wondering how to do this with php, every method i have found isntworking.
15. Boyd

    Try this to create thumbnails, I have it working. You must have the GD library installed in order for this to work!

    //Only used to create an image with the same name as the video with .jpg ext
    $thumb=substr(filename,0,(strlen(filename)-strlen(filetype)));
    $command="ffmpeg -i ".escapeshellarg(html_entity_decode("directory/to/video/filename"))." -an -ss ".escapeshellarg("00:00:08")." -an -r 1 -vframes 1 -y -f mjpeg ".escapeshellarg(html_entity_decode("directory/to/jpg/".$thumb."jpg"));
    
    //change this to your library path
    shell_exec("export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/");
    shell_exec("nohup nice -n 1 $command > /dev/null & echo $!");
    
    sleep(5);
    chmod("".FILES_DIR.$file_id."-".$thumb."jpg",0700);
    

    This will create an image of the 8th second of the video
16. Boyd

    BTW I just can’t seem to be able to convert videos I get 0Kb files, but I am able to execute the same command from the command line

    Any help would be appreciated, you can email me
17. Thunder

    Ffmpeg is great for converting files but complex codec and parameters setting is often required when you are using it on linux. As far windows platform is concerned, Ffmpeg is awesome.
• Jeff

  Thunder (or anyone), I’ve been trying to get FFmpeg working on WAMP for days. Can you please help me?

  I have found little info about installing and testing FFmpeg and flvtool2 on WAMP. I could really use someone’s help.

  I already hFFmpegmpeg, flvtool2 and FFmpegmpeg installed but I’m not sure if I have installed the correct versions of each so they all work together.

  Every test script I try gives some sort of error or I get a 0kb flv file. Maybe because the scripts are for NIX. I just don’t know.

  If someone is willing to take the time, I surappreciaterechiate it :)

  Shoot me an email:

  jeffshead at hotmail.c0m
18. srini

    How can i convert videos in short time? guys anyone can please suggest…