[needed] auto .flv conversion on upload

[Zaphieon]

looking for a program/software that will automatically convert media files to .flv when uploading them.. or .mp4

[well mannered squirrel]

check ffmpeg if you're on a budget. you'll need to configure it tho

[purecharlie]

check ffmpeg if you're on a budget.

And if you're not on a budget, what would you recommend then?

[well mannered squirrel]

It's not much about being on a budget or not, FFMPEG does the job well (a lot of softwares and scripts are based on ffmpeg), the thing is, it's open source, so you're not gonna get any kind of support and there is no pretty interface, it's a command line tool.

If you have some money to spend on this (FFMPEG is free) you could just google "FLV encoder" and see what your options are. Personally, I've only used ffmpeg so I can't recommend any other software.

If you expect a lot of traffics on your website, you should also look at flash servers to stream your content.

Hope that helps

[cyber]

with mencoder:

mencoder "source.wmv" -ofps 25 -of lavf -ovc lavc -srate 22050 -oac mp3lame -lavcopts vcodec=flv:acodec=mp3 -o "target.flv"

[cyber]

For best quality, use double pass method, similar to Youtube:

mencoder source.wmv -o output.flv -oac mp3lame -lameopts q=9:mode=3 -srate 22050 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=256:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:last_pred=3:vpass=1:turbo -mc 1 -ofps 30 -of lavf -vf harddup -nosound
mencoder source.wmv -o output.flv -oac mp3lame -lameopts q=9:mode=3 -srate 22050 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=256:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:last_pred=3:vpass=2 -mc 1 -ofps 30 -of lavf -vf harddup

[purecharlie]

Thanks Cyber but that's all gibberish to me I am afraid.
I have Googled FLV converter in the past but the software it came up with wasn't suitable for the job. I am looking for something that converts WMV files to FLV files without loss of quality but keeping the file size either the same or slightly smaller. Anyone know of anything that can do this?