[PD] Playing .flv files

[carmen]

On Fri Feb 16, 2007 at 03:01:33PM -0600, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
> FYI, FLV has two different codecs associated with it right now:
> Sorensen Spark (Flash 7 player) and On2 TrueMotion VP6, which requires
> Flash 8 and above.
> 
> This is also in the Wikipedia entry though, but I thought I'd
> reiterate it here for discussion purposes.

yeah. ffmpeg and players that use it can play just about anything thrown at it these days, without external codecs.
flash video (anything from youtube), WMV, and RealMedia (mostly) is all good. 

> 
> Does ffmpeg convert to the Sorensen or On2 VP6 version of FLV?
> 
> ~Kyle
> 
> On 2/16/07, Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >ffmpeg seems to be convert an flv quite well for me, in Ubuntu Dapper:
> >
> >ffmpeg -i video.flv -acodec copy -o video.avi
> >
> >(This will leave the audio as mp3, and re-encode the video into mpeg4)
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
> >On 2/16/07, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> wrote:
> >> Oh, I see...it's proprietary Flash junk....
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLV
> >>
> >> But if ffmpeg, MPlayer or VLC can deal with it, then it must have a
> >> codec out there in some lib somewhere.
> >>
> >> d.
> >>
> >> Derek Holzer wrote:
> >> > What kind of codec is .flv? If Quicktime, libquicktime or some other
> >> > library which PDP or GEM relies on for decoding already (ffmpeg?)
> >> > supports it, it could be possible.
> >> >
> >> > d.
> >> >
> >> > Jiri Heitlager wrote:
> >> >> I am pretty sure that playing .flv files in PD is not (yet) supported.
> >> >> Would it not be a very cool thing, becuase then clips from youtube can
> >> >> be used in projects..
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
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