How to encode FLV on Mac w/ Open Source?
February 23, 2008 6:03 AM   Subscribe

What's the best way to encode FLV (flash video) files on Mac OS X without Quick Time Pro? Is there a good open source Mac encoder? I've used Riva for Windows but can't find anything comparable for Mac.
posted by nicknd23 to Technology (9 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Visual Hub
posted by unixrat at 6:09 AM on February 23, 2008 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Looks perfect! Thanks!
posted by nicknd23 at 6:14 AM on February 23, 2008


Vixy has a downloadable app for OS X; it can also get YouTube videos online and convert them.
posted by katrielalex at 6:15 AM on February 23, 2008


How fast is Visual Hub compared to, say, the Flash Video Encoder? How good is the quality? Anyone used both?
posted by Mayor Curley at 7:52 AM on February 23, 2008


What about ffmpeg? It definitively can encode FLV and should run without a problem on MAC OS X. It is also open source.
posted by pu9iad at 8:40 AM on February 23, 2008


Avidemux has been a godsend for me.
posted by potch at 8:46 AM on February 23, 2008


I've always used ffmpeg on Windows and OS X. With a little bit of tweaking, it will do fabulous transcodes of almost any video format.
posted by icebourg at 8:52 AM on February 23, 2008


Visual Hub is just a good AppleScript GUI wrapping ffmpeg in the background. You can look at the logs to see how it's calling ffmpeg, but when I try to reproduce it on the command line, I can never get it to work. I am a BIG fan of Visual Hub. The video quality is great and the developer(s) are prompt. Just don't try to pirate a serial, it will catch you and do some pretty funny stuff =)

I have also created a Folder Action that uses Visual Hub to automatically convert any files I put in that folder into FLV. If you want it bad enough, I could probably dig it up (it's on an old backup of my newly installed system...)
posted by bumper314 at 12:05 PM on February 23, 2008


Mpeg Streamclip
posted by cwhitfcd at 10:12 PM on February 26, 2008


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