Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:55:13 +0200 godo wrote: > > >> mplayer might let you do that with -dumpstream. > > > > I've used -dumpstream before, to just grab the audio from a YouTube > > video without reencoding it. I'd have to figure out how to correctly > > repack the raw streams into a new contai

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread godo
mplayer might let you do that with -dumpstream. I've used -dumpstream before, to just grab the audio from a YouTube video without reencoding it. I'd have to figure out how to correctly repack the raw streams into a new container. Celejar I was try that with ffmpg and it works. ffmpeg -i in

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:50:49 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/05/2010 07:22 PM, Celejar wrote: > [snip] > > > > And flv is also a container, so I suppose that what I really want to do > > is "transcontainerify" rather than transcode, i.e., to repack the video > > into a different container, witho

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread godo
On 10/05/2010 03:40 PM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I'm dabbling in transcoding flvs (e.g., from YouTube) to mp4s (for uploading to a service (Snapfish) which doesn't support flv. I'm doing something like this: ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 I find that the above command line reduces the size of th

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 07:22 PM, Celejar wrote: [snip] And flv is also a container, so I suppose that what I really want to do is "transcontainerify" rather than transcode, i.e., to repack the video into a different container, without reencoding it. Is this even possible? mplayer might let you do tha

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:31:59 -0400 Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 01:15:16PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > And why on earth is the default behavior to multiply the size by a > > factor of four just to retain the same quality? Is mp4 really such an > > inferior format to flv that this is r

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 01:15:16PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > And why on earth is the default behavior to multiply the size by a > factor of four just to retain the same quality? Is mp4 really such an > inferior format to flv that this is required to retain the level of > quality? > mp4 is a contain

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 22:11:32 +0200 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Celejar: > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:58:05 +0200 > > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> > >> ffmpeg uses a fixed default for geometry (-s) and quality (-sameq, > >> -qscale, -vb etc.). You have to set both explicitly if you need anything > >> else (

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Celejar: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:58:05 +0200 > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> ffmpeg uses a fixed default for geometry (-s) and quality (-sameq, >> -qscale, -vb etc.). You have to set both explicitly if you need anything >> else (which you usually do). > > Thanks. Is there a tutorial for simple tra

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:58:05 +0200 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Celejar: > > > > ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 > > > > I find that the above command line reduces the size of the video to > > about a third of the original, but at the cost of egregious degradation > > of the video quality. If I use

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Celejar: > > ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 > > I find that the above command line reduces the size of the video to > about a third of the original, but at the cost of egregious degradation > of the video quality. If I use the 'sameq' option: ffmpeg uses a fixed default for geometry (-s) and

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:48:49 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/05/2010 08:40 AM, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm dabbling in transcoding flvs (e.g., from YouTube) to mp4s (for > > uploading to a service (Snapfish) which doesn't support flv. I'm doing > > something like this: > > > > ffmpeg -i

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:13:07 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:40:46 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > (...) > > > Why is this, and is there a happy medium, i.e., a way to keep the size > > roughly constant, but to retain quality? > > Play with "-qscale n" (n=1 better quality/bigger

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 08:40 AM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I'm dabbling in transcoding flvs (e.g., from YouTube) to mp4s (for uploading to a service (Snapfish) which doesn't support flv. I'm doing something like this: ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 Have you tried Handbrake? It's got a CLI mode, too. -

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
[Please reply only to the list, as per the CoC.] On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:59:04 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Celejar writes: > > ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 > > I just get > > Unsupported codec for output stream #0.1 > > on debian unstable with ffmpeg 4:0.5.2-4. I'm using 5:0.6~s

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:40:46 -0400, Celejar wrote: (...) > Why is this, and is there a happy medium, i.e., a way to keep the size > roughly constant, but to retain quality? Play with "-qscale n" (n=1 better quality/bigger file, n=31 lower quality, smaller file) Greetings, -- Camaleón --

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Celejar writes: > ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 I just get Unsupported codec for output stream #0.1 on debian unstable with ffmpeg 4:0.5.2-4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm dabbling in transcoding flvs (e.g., from YouTube) to mp4s (for uploading to a service (Snapfish) which doesn't support flv. I'm doing something like this: ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 I find that the above command line reduces the size of the video to about a third of the original,