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Part of a new product I have been assigned to work on involves server-side conversion of the ‘common’ video formats to something that Flash can play.
As far as I know, my only option is to convert to FLV. I have been giving ffmpeg a go around, but I’m finding a few WMV files that come out with garbled sound (I’ve tried playing with the audio rates).
Are there any other ‘good’ CLI converters for Linux? Or are there other video formats that Flash can play?
Flash can play the following formats:
ffmpeg is an overall good conversion utility; mencoder works better with obscure and proprietary formats (due to the w32codecs binary decoder package) but its muxing is rather suboptimal (read: often totally broken). One solution might be to encode H.264 with x264 through mencoder, and then mux separately with mp4box.
As a developer of x264 (and avid user of flash for online video playback), I’ve had quite a bit of experience in this kind of stuff, so if you want more assistance I’m also available on Freenode IRC on #x264, #ffmpeg, and #mplayer.