mp4? There’s a script for that: #!/bin/shįfmpeg -sameq -i "$file" "$file.mp4" < /dev/null name '*.flv' -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file įfmpeg -vcodec copy -acodec copy -i "$file" "$file.mp4" < /dev/null Here’s a simple shell script to do this: #!/bin/shįind. flv (containing a H.264 stream) video files in a directory to. Using ffmpeg for remuxing or transcoding Flash videos seems to deliver better results compared to all other video converters I was able to find for the Mac (not that there are many). Obviously, transcoding from one video format into another will take a whole lot more time than remuxing. The video stream needs to be transcoded from VP6 to MPEG-4 in order to be iTunes-compatible. You can’t simply remux the streams into an. Let’s say you want to convert a Flash video that contains an On2 VP6 video stream. That’s it! Ain’t that simple? And because there’s no transcoding involved, this process is super fast! Transcode. mp4: ffmpeg -vcodec copy -acodec copy -i in.flv out.mp4
mp4 container with an embedded H.264 stream. Your target format is an iTunes-compatible. Your in.flv has an embedded H.264 video stream and an AAC audio stream. Let’s say you want to convert in.flv to out.mp4. Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder Remuxing. disable-shared -enable-libmp3lame -enable-gpl build 5664)Ĭonfiguration: -enable-libfaac -enable-libx264 -enable-nonfree FFmpeg version SVN-r25783, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developersīuilt on 20:50:32 with gcc 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. I linked all dependent libraries (like x264) statically so it’s just one large binary. I also had to apply a small fix in utils.c so ffmpeg doesn’t abort with “error, non monotone timestamps n >= n” while remuxing slightly out-of-sync Flash videos. The source for this binary is taken straight from the latest SVN trunk so don’t expect it to work for anything other than explained in this post. You may want to build your own ffmpeg binary but if you’re too lazy, just download my ffmpeg binary. The bad news is (well, for some): it’s only for the command line savvy. The good news is: yes, it actually is! And it’s free as well. mp4 container, without transcoding the entire video?
mp4 make use of the same video format (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC) shouldn’t it be dead simple to extract the H.264 video stream and the audio stream and remux them to an iTunes-compatible. Since MPEG StreamClip uses Perian, the converted.
It may very well be that there’s something odd with my Flash videos but with VLC for Mac and on my Windows XP virtual machine, those videos play back with no visible or audible problems. There’s stutter, there are those typical compression artifacts and video/audio is off-sync at times. flv videos are encoded with H.264/MPEG-4 AVC today.įor some reason, quite a few of my Flash videos don’t play very well with Perian. With hardware video accelerators becoming more popular in mobile devices, many. A while back, On2 VP6 was the standard video codec for Flash video. flv Flash video format is a container for different video and audio formats.
Perian itself uses ffmpeg to play Flash videos and plugs in nicely into Mac OS X so you can play Flash videos with Quicktime Player as well.
The software needs Perian to be able to handle the Flash video format. Besides, I prefer to manage my video collection in iTunes instead of dragging every clip onto an app icon.Ī software called MPEG StreamClip is a good starting point to convert all kinds of video files to something that plays on iOS devices like the iPad. flv videos usually don’t play very well on iOS devices. flv format but Apple doesn’t allow 3rd party software devs to use the built-in H.264 hardware acceleration for video playback. VLC Media Player for iOS is able to play the. As you may be aware, everything with the name Flash in it doesn’t play too well on Apple’s iOS devices. flv format which I want to watch on my iPad. I have a bunch of photography tutorials in the Flash video.