csnyder wrote:
idea what this means in practice... can ffmpeg actually create a Flash
animation?
I don't know, I've only used ffmpeg for 2 purposes:
1) To translate avi and windows media files for a website
to flash. Windows Media Files are a /pain/ to translate because you
can have a perfectly playable windows media file but it has a bit of
corruption which results in ffmpeg truncating the file. What was worse
was that everything worked fine and then stopped one day and the client
insisted they didn't do anything differently. After a week or so of
investigating, they mentioned that they upgraded their software used to
create the windows media file which resulted in it generating funky
stuff at the end. [Hint: if your trying to troubleshoot a problem, the
first thing to do is upload it to youtube and/or google video. This at
least tells you if it is possible to convert the file to flash, as if
they can't do it, I refuse to spend my time on a fixed price contract
tracking down every little variable and testing it.]
2) I fiddled with some shell scripts on my mythtv box at home to convert
tv to flash video format suitable for playing on the wii[so I could
record to my PC and than watch it over the wireless network on the TV
using the WII]
In both cases, I was just converting, not creating from scratch.
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