.avi to .flv

I'm converting an .avi to a .flv and am looking to third
parties for encoding. The Flash 8 Video Encoder does not provide
enough options to create a high quality .flv. So far I've tried
Flix Pro, Swish, Turbine, Riva, Allock and Sorenson Squeeze. I have
found that Sorenson Squeeze seems to provide the best output.
What I'm really looking for is anyone who has experience with
Sorenson Squeeze or anyother encoder and can provide input on why
or why not this would be a good option for converting an .avi to a
.flv. Any input or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

try ffmpeg:
- open source(free ...)
- add flv meta data so you can use onMetaData event in your
swf
- can be automated on a web server
- do a very good job(quality, speed)
-- download
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/
-- doc
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html

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Final Cut Express 4 supports only DV, HDV and AVCHD (last one only on Intel CPUs) using the Apple Intermediate Codec.
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How do I convert from AVI or FLV to SWF file?

First, I'm a complete Flash novice...this is the first time
I've dealt with any FLV or SWF files. So, please forgive my
ignorance on these topics. I have several small AVI files and have
successfully converted them to FLV format via Premiere Pro CS3 and
Adobe Media Encoder. But the client is also asking for SWF files of
the same videos. I've looked and looked for a way to save SWF
files. I tried pulling the video into Flash CS3, and saving as SWF,
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to be playable anywhere. If there is a click-by-click method for
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Why doesn't Flash have a built-in capability to convert FLV
to SWF? It's an obvious need and there are 3rd party programs of
varying quality that do it. Why should people who have already
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then install it on their machines?

From AVI to FLV for Flash MX Professional 2004

Hi there...
Let me thank you for your attention...
This is my issue, I had this Flash MX 2004 Professional when I bought my PC, since then , 6 years ago, I learned how to use it, and recently got a little proyect which turned out to be something very professional, I developed some SWF files at 30fps and recorded them using Camtasia Studio at 40fps, then I created an AVI video file of 400MB +-, I want that those AVIs inside an SWF with my own VIDEO PLAYER, the one me myself developed, play, paused buttons, progressBar, time, etc. Problem is, these AVI files are much too big, I think, for my Flash MX 2004 Professional, they last 1hour 30min. I cannot upgrade to a modern version of Flash ever since, I have no time to do it, the proyect is already somehow delayed, and almost everything is already done in Flash MX 2004 Professional, I have no ways to convert my AVI files into FLA files, or how place those 1hour-30min AVI files in my SWF, ever since I need those videos besides some other SWF files which I will use to lounch a product will must run just as it it were a DVD, it has its own menu, from the user may select the video they want to see, when they select one, a new window must pop-up with my video and my controlers in it.
Would you recommend me some programs that may convert my heavy AVI files into more readable FLA files, my Flash MX 2004 Professional does not do it properly... I have no idea why...
Please I appreciate your advice ever since I just learned everything as I developed my SWF and other files.
Thanks for your attention

check out the source code on this page
http://rodneybauer.com/whiteboard2.htm
im using flv file...not swf file....and using html5....see below for more info on that...
you can use other video / sound assets besides flv
----------------random notes for you to check out------------
mobile device video info
The options actually match those of the most recent iPod Video, which uses H.264 video, up to 1.5Mbps, 640 x 480 pixels, and 30 frames per second with low-complexity AAC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz stereo audio. On the lower end, bandwidths up to 768Kbps, 320 x 240 pixels, and 30 frames per second are also used, known as Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3. Both options can be output with .m4v, .mp4, or .mov extensions.
iTunes. The simplest way is to use iTunes built-in converter. Apple makes it fairly simple to convert videos to play on the Apple TV or iPod, which are also conversions that can be used on the iPhone. Any video that can play in iTunes, then, can be converted to play on the iPhone, and local files can also be synced directly to the iPhone via iTunes sync conduit, making for a fairly easy process. Two downsides: first, iTunes uses a "lowest common denominator" approach, meaning that there are no customized options for encoding into H.264. Also, some users have reported a bug in the most recent version of iTunes that creates video files with no audio, so don’t toss your original video clips until you’ve had a chance to test out the new H.264-compressed video clips.
Handbrake. Handbrake is the next most-popular encoding tool for both Windows and Macintosh platforms, and it’s available in a command-line version for Linux. Handbrake does a lot more than just H.264 conversions, but for purposes of this article, Handbrake would be used to transcode an MPEG-2 transport stream or other non-H.264 formats and codecs into H.264 video files. Speed on the product is quite good, and it has the option of a single-profile conversion (like iTunes) or the ability to customize encoding or profiles and then save the tweaks for future encodings. Handbrake has made a name for itself in DVD-to-iPod conversion, so the extension of Handbrake to the iPhone is one that many users trust.
On any of the last three products, the H.264 files output from these products can be added to the iTunes library for uploading to the iPhone. For those choosing to put their iPhone-compliant videos on the web, it’s also helpful to choose hinted streaming to allow the videos to begin playing immediately rather than waiting for the entire cache to fill.
http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/embed-videos-in-your-web-pages-using-html5/
So, you want in on the fun? Do you want to use some HTML5 video tags on your site right now? No problem. Fasten your seat belts, as we’re about to take a tour of the wonderful world of HTML5 video.
Browser Support for HTML5
First, let’s deal with some very basic stuff, like where this will work and where it won’t. As you can see in the table below, only the latest versions of most browsers support native video playback using HTML5’s <video> tag.
HTML5 <video> support by browser: Fx 3.0     Fx 3.5     IE7     IE8     IE9     Safari 3     Safari 4     Chrome 3+     Opera 10.5
Since Firefox 3.0 and IE 7 & 8 lack any support for HTML5 video, you’ll have to come up with a fallback plan for serving video to those users. Depending on what you want to do you, could fallback first to Quicktime and then, failing that, to Flash. That’s the strategy used in Video for Everyone (note that as of v0.4, Video for everyone no longer falls back to QuickTime).
To keep things simple we’re just going to fall straight from HTML5 to Flash.
Formats, Codecs and Technicalities
The next thing you need to understand is what is actually happening when you load and play a video file in your web browser. You’re probably used to thinking of video as .mp4 or .mov files, but unfortunately it’s not that simple. The actual file formats are just containers. Think of them as a bit like a .zip file — they hold other stuff inside.
Each container holds at minimum one video track and, most likely, one audio track. When you watch a movie online, your video player (most likely Flash) decodes both the audio and video and sends the information to your screen and speakers.
Why does this matter? Well, because the process of decoding what’s inside the video container file varies. To know how to decode a movie, the player (which is your web browser in the case of HTML5 video) has to know which codec the movie was encoded with.
When it comes to web video there are two codecs to worry about: H.264 and Theora.
There’s a huge debate right now among web developers, browser makers and just about everyone else as to which codec is right for the web. We believe that a free, open codec without patent and licensing restrictions is the best solution for the web. Sadly, neither codec exactly fulfills that dream, so for now, let’s just skip the whole argument and be practical — we’re going to use both codecs.
Why? Well, have a look at the table below, which shows which codecs work where and you’ll quickly see that there is no one-size-fits-all-browsers solution. Only Google Chrome can play both H.264 and Theora.
Codec support by browser/platform:     Firefox     Opera     Chrome     Safari     IE 9     iPhone     Android
Ogg Theora
H.264
So, you may be thinking … if HTML5 video doesn’t work in IE7 or IE8 and it means I’m going to have to encode my videos twice, then why bother at all? Well, the best answer is simple: mobile users. If you want iPhone and Android users to be able to see your video, HTML5 is the only way to do it — Flash support is coming to Android sooner or later but for now HTML5 is the only option, and we all know Flash doesn’t run on the iPhone or the iPad.
The HTML5 Code
Here’s how to actually embed your videos. First, we encode video in both .ogv and .mp4 containers. Encoding video is beyond the scope of this article, so instead we suggest you check out Mark Pilgrim’s online book Dive Into HTML5, which has a whole chapter devoted to understanding video encoding. Pilgrim’s encoding suggestions use free software to get the job done, and in the end you’ll have two files — one .mp4 and one .ogv.
Now it’s time to unleash those movies in pure HTML glory. Here’s the code:
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1    <video width="560" height="340" controls>
2      <source src="path/to/myvideo.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"'>
3    <source src="path/to/myvideo.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
4    </video>
Yes, that’s it. What we’ve done here is use the <video> tag to specify the dimensions of our video, and to denote that we want to use the browser’s default controls. Then, within the video tag, we’ve added two <source> elements which link to our video files.
The “type” attribute of the <source> tag helps the browser understand which file it should load. It’s a bit of an ugly chunk of code that needs to specify the container format, the video codec and the audio codec.
In this case we’ve assumed standard .ogv and baseline encoded H.264 video as per Pilgrim’s tutorial. See the WHATWG wiki for more information on which video types you can specify.
And there you have it — native web video, no plugins required.
Dealing With Everyone Else
What about IE7, IE8 and older versions of just about any other browser? Well, for those users, we’ll fall back on Flash. To do that, we just use an <embed> tag within our video tag:
view source
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1    <video width="560" height="340" controls>
2      <source src="path/to/myvideo.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"'>
3    <source src="path/to/myvideo.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
4      <object width="640" height="384" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
5            data="path/to/swf/player.swf?image=placeholder.jpg&file=path/to/myvideo.mp4">
6            <param name="movie" value="path/to/swf/player.swf?image=placeholder.jpg&file=path/to/myvideo.mp4" />
7        </object>
8    </video>
Now any browser that doesn’t understand the HTML5 video tag will just continue on its way until it hits the object tag, which it should understand (note that the order, mp4 before ogv, is important for iPad support — Apple requires that mp4 be the first video file).
Of course for this to work you need a Flash video container. JW Player is one popular example, or you can roll your own using Adobe’s tools. Also remember that we still haven’t handled the case of an older version of Firefox with no Flash plugin installed (maybe your users are surfing your tubes with an outdated Linux machine). You can always add good old text-based links to the video files as a catch-all fix for anyone who can’t, for whatever reason, see either the HTML5 or Flash versions.
Conclusion
Embedding HTML5 video isn’t significantly more difficult than using Flash, especially if you’ve been using H.264 video files in your Flash player — which is exactly what YouTube has done with its HTML5 beta.
While we’re concerned about the licensing and patent requirements of H.264, it isn’t hard to notice that if you skip Theora and make all non-H.264 fall back to Flash, you’ve still saved yourself a considerable encoding headache. In fact, that’s probably the best practical argument against Mozilla and Opera’s refusal to support H.264.
If you’d like to use some of the more advanced aspects of HTML5 video, be sure to check the SublimeVideo player, which offers very nice JavaScript-powered set of custom controls. Also be sure to have a look at Video for Everybody, which makes for more complex code but handles just about every use case you could imagine. And there’s a handy Video for Everybody WordPress plugin as well.
http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody

How to convert and avi to flv

Hello everybody,
I have an avi file that I would like to convert to an flv
file. Can I do this in Flash CS3? If so, how?
Any help for a rookie would be much appreciated. Thanks so
much for your time.
Scott

fusion25 wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have an avi file that I would like to convert to an
flv file. Can I do this
> in Flash CS3? If so, how?
>
> Any help for a rookie would be much appreciated. Thanks
so much for your time.
Flash CS3 comes with "Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder",
standalone application.
You could as well use Flash to convert to FLV, simply import
that file to flash
and it will open the FLV conversion dialog automatically.
Best Regards
Urami
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Avi to flv converter?

Hi, I've been trolling the internet for a 100% free video converter, not something that's freeware/shareware but requires a license. I have a big need to convert my avi's and mp4's into flv so that they don't eat up as much of my sites bandwidth a month. Can anyone recommend something 100% free, I just laid out the cash I had on final cut so paying for more software isn't idea at this point and time.

sozemediagroup wrote:
.. convert my avi's and mp4's into flv so that they don't eat up as much of my sites bandwidth a month.
in addition to David's excellent advice... :
flv is just a container; it became famous due to YouTubes success; but YT used the old-fashioned VP6 video-codec for compression; since Flash10, flv allows latest h264 inside (Davids advice); actually, YT offers h264 encoded material and actually converts to html5/no flv ...
but you'll notice actually a 'switch', away from flv to html5, e.g. most mobile-devices (smartphones from Nokia, LG etc, Blackberry, iPhone, iPad) don't support this 'power eating format', and turn to more elegant and much faster/smaller html5/< video > tag + h264 ...
it's all about compatibility and market shares
.. flv isn't perhaps not future-proof ...

AVI, SWF, FLV and issues with Captivate

Hello,
This is my first post here. But I have been searching so some
time to find the answer to my issue. The closest thing I have found
was this
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=67&catid=464&threadid =1290481&highlight_key=y&keyword1=convert
Post but the issue was not really resolved the user just
reconverted the file (which you will see in the post why this is
not working for me)
So without further delay here is my issue.
I am creating a training video. The video will open with a
live action scene. This video is or will be about 2 minutes long. I
have been testing Captivate because I read that it will import
AVI’s. That being said every time I import an AVI I get the
error message.
"This AVI file cannot be converted to a Adobe Flash File.
Conversion aborted."(You can see why the above post sparked my
interest)
The AVI has been rendered from Sony’s Video Vegas
(mighty fine editing software if I might say). I have rendered it
using multiple codec’s. When I try and import the video into
Captivate I am creating a new slide at the beginning of the project
and then trying to add the AVI as an animation, this when I receive
the error.
After reading on line that other users were having similar
issues I decided to try and convert the video to SWF or FLV. The
converter I chose was “super” converter (really I found
this on my own and was not copying it from the post)
Now my issue is the following. With SWF files, it imports
fine and when I play the video in the time line the video looks
fine and I can see the video play. But when I try and preview the
project the will not play and I cannot move the “time line
bar” the only option I have is to close window.
With and the FLV files the following happens. I can import
the FLV as a flash video and it appears in the slide but it is
“grayed out” when I try and view the video in the
Timeline for the slide I cannot see anything.
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1) Is there something special that I need to do to get
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to do when I render the video?
2) SWF files working in the time line but not in the final
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3) Is there a “preferred” converter that people
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Michael M

Hi Michael,
I haven't tried AVI or SWF videos, but I've used several FLV
videos (though I had someone else convert them for me, so I can't
help you there). The main problem I've had have to do with where
the files are stored so that Captivate can correctly access the
files and play them back. Also, if you use a skin in the Flash
video, when you publish the file, make sure that the skin .SWF file
is published. If you are using Captivate 2 and happen to use the
corona skin, you need to change the "C" in CoronaSkin3.swf (for
example) to a lowercase "c", or else the published video won't play
at all (just gray - like I think you're describing). I've got some
2+ minute FLV files that play fine though once we got everything
squared away. Let me know if you have any questions about what I
described above (which doesn't have a whole lot of video cause I'm
a little short of time at the moment).
Good luck,
David

Avi to FLV converting using Flash 8

I'm trying to convert an avi file that works perfectly to a
FLV file using Macromedia Flash 8.
The info for the avi file is the following:
Codec: a52
Sample Rate: 48000 Hz
Bitrate: 256 kb/s
The FLV file is trying to converted to the following:
Video Codec: On2 VP6
Audio Codec: MPEG Layer III (MP3)
Audio data rate: 96 kbps (Stereo)
After convertion the video looks fine but there is no audio.
I tried selecting another audio codec on Flash 8 but the only
codec showing is MPEG Layer III (MP3). And its gray out. No option
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for the audio to not get dropped during the conversion. I use
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Converting avi to flv

HI,
I new to flash and php, I can use them both on there own, but
have never merged the two together.
I was wounder how you go about this problem:
I have built a video uploader (php, mysql) stored the file
names in a database.
The files upload as avi, mpeg and mov.
As you know, the flash player only plays flv.
So, i need a way to convert the files over, either during the
upload or during the play back?
How do youtube and myspace do it?
Thanks for any help.

Wait a minute, you used Photoshop to save it as an FLV? That might be the reason the conversion wasn't made properly.
Open Adobe Media Encoder and press the button Add...
Browse your computer for the AVI file and click Open
Now click the Settings... button
In Format, make sure FLV | F4V is selected
Make sure Export Video and Export Audio are checked.
Click on the Format tab and check FLV
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Click OK and then Start Queue
That should do the trick, can you try this and tell me if that worked?

Media Encoder - AVI to FLV conversion failure

I get this error when trying to add an avi file to Media Encoder to convert it to flv. Al of the files that I am using are not corrupted. They have all been processed before by Media Encoder. This problem started happening when I upgraded my OS to Windows 7 and reinstalled the Adobe tools.

Since you mention that you just upgraded to Win7 you may not be aware of the new User Access Controls it imposes. Make sure you are launching both Captivate AND the Adobe Media Encoder with Run As Administrator privileges.
If you don't know about this, see this post:
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What codec do I need to add to play a video that is called .avi
It will not play on my new Macbook Pro since I put it into the movies section of my launchpad. When it was on the desktop It worked fine. I moved it back to the desktop and it still does not work.
The error message says The document " .avi" could not be opened.
A required codec is not available.

Download VLC Media Player which plays anything you throw at it and Perian (AVI and FLV support).

Change flv settings

I am unable to import a wmv9 file into flash... dont ask me
why.... however Ive managed to convert the wm9 to a full quality
flv using another program... however the program I've done this
with wont let me change the frame rate.
Problem when I try and import the full quality flv video into
flash I can no longer change things like the frame rate as it just
imports the flv straight... Is there any way or a free program
anyone knows of that wil let me change the frame rate of an flv?
many thanks J.

Do you mean convert avi to flv format? I know eahoosoft video converter can do this with high quanlity and beautiful interface

Video to FLV console converter

Hi All,
How to convert avi and other video formats to FLV using
console (command prompt) application. So my .Net application can
convert avi to FLVs using console. When ever new video file uploads
it should convert to FLV formate.
Thanks & Regards,
Sridhar B

Thanks for the answers, I'll try the above link.
MX and Pro do allow for creation of FLV files but in the
tutorial it says that it must be 1.0 or higher. The script is defo
correct and the scrub doesn't work.
I'll try this and let you know the outcome.
Thanks

Flash Pro 8 will encode avi but not mpg

i can enode an avi to flv with no problem. but not an mpg. i
get "internal error." does anyone know why?
thank you.

patmck47 wrote:
> i can enode an avi to flv with no problem. but not an
mpg. i get "internal error." does anyone know why?
>
> thank you.
perhaps the mpg format is not compatible. There are so many
tools doing output to
such large variety of mpeg files, not all are compatible with
flash.
Best Regards
Urami
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Error opening .avi movie file

When I try to open an .avi movie in quicktime I get a message that says:
"Error opening movie. The movie could not be opened." How can I open the movie? Or can I? Thanks...
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

turtle007 & Mew Gull,
To Apple Discussions!
Open the file with QuickTime Player.
Open the Movie Info window (Command-i).
Note the name of the video codec used in the file.
Do a Google.com search for codec name +Mac and download one appropriate for your OS and computer.
Quit and relaunch QuickTime after installing the new codec.
Try the file again.
Thanks to QuickTimeKirk for the above info.
If the above does not work, then use VLC Media Player or Perian (AVI and FLV support)

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