Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?

[Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com>]

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 <manon.metten@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Manon Metten <manon.metten@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?
> To: qipaishi2006@yahoo.com
> 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
> <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> 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.