Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter
On 5/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:05:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 > avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a > non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play > and capture each file to record and convert. Too much time consuming. not at my machine to research it, but can you play them with mplayer? if so then mencoder will transcode it. in fact, again without checking it out, if you can play it with just about any cli player, then you can probably capture and encode it with mencoder. sorry I'm not more specific. mplayer and mencoder aren't able to play the swf, they say the format is not supported. I have w32coders installed. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter
On 5/9/07, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:47:31AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: [big snip] > ffmpeg -i goodvideo.flv goodvideo.avi. > > You can tell clive to download and convert in one go, but since I really > only convert maybe 10% (if that), I haven't bothered. You could of course just play the FLV files in mplayer or another player that uses libavcodec. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is nto flv but swf format. TO convert to flv or any other format in that matter, requires capturing of audio and video w hich takes lot of time and effort for each of the movies and then if I move away from the puter, the softwares keep capturing blank frames once the movie has ended. Bad thing! Is there any solution to this? I installed the mencoder and it has a huge man page with loads of options. Don't know if it can convert or not though. SWF to any video format is fine. Next step I could convert them all in to mp4. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:47:31AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: [big snip] > ffmpeg -i goodvideo.flv goodvideo.avi. > > You can tell clive to download and convert in one go, but since I really > only convert maybe 10% (if that), I haven't bothered. You could of course just play the FLV files in mplayer or another player that uses libavcodec. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 23:17 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > If you want to download the raw FLV video that's being streamed through a > SWF file on a web page, you can use the youtube-dl package (included in > Etch) or the VideoDownload addon for Firefox. I use clive (available in Debian) to download flash videos and ffmpeg to convert them to AVI's. I'm always getting emails and so forth with links to YouTube videos, which I generally do want to watch, but not at that particular moment. So I paste the URL into a text file, then every so often run clive -y < yturls.txt which downloads all the FLV files from YouTube in one go (the '-y' option just tells clive to go ahead and download without asking for confirmation). Any that I like and want to save I convert with ffmpeg -i goodvideo.flv goodvideo.avi. You can tell clive to download and convert in one go, but since I really only convert maybe 10% (if that), I haven't bothered. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:05:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 > avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a > non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play > and capture each file to record and convert. Too much time consuming. not at my machine to research it, but can you play them with mplayer? if so then mencoder will transcode it. in fact, again without checking it out, if you can play it with just about any cli player, then you can probably capture and encode it with mencoder. sorry I'm not more specific. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:05:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 > avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a > non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play > and capture each file to record and convert. Too much time consuming. Xvid *is* an implementation of MPEG4. SWF is not a video format and cannot be converted directly to AVI except by playing it. SWF is a semicompiled script format, similar to Java bytecodes. Flash video is FLV format. Many web sites (notably YouTube) play FLV using a SWF player, but the actual video is in FLV format. If you want to download the raw FLV video that's being streamed through a SWF file on a web page, you can use the youtube-dl package (included in Etch) or the VideoDownload addon for Firefox. Once you have an FLV, you can convert it to AVI using mencoder (from the debian-multimedia repository), which depends on ffmpeg. A plausible command would be mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac mp3lame -o newname.avi oldname.flv where all of that is one line. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter
Deboo ^ wrote: I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play and capture each file to record and convert. Too much time consuming. Check the "new" packages from the past week or so. There was a package called swf-tools or something similar that was just uploaded to SID that had a number of command line tools for manipulating SWFs, and you might be able to use something from that package in conjunction with FFmpeg or Mplayer to get what you want. You might need the repository from www.debian-multimedia.org, espeically if you want to deal in patent-encumbered algorithms. Regards, Deboo -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
