Transcoding and flash

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,

A quick question:

I'm writing now an article that includes a short movie. I've been playing with video format, transcoding using VirtualDub and VLC and also converting to flash using ffmpeg.

I noticed that XviD offers better quality than .flv format, even a supposedly lossless transcoding, even though .flv has about 50% more bytes.

Of course, there's the option of me being dumb. Does anyone have any tips for making movies and formatting, flash in particular? Except the above solutions?

Mrk

[iceni60]

you can use wink.
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

click on the arrow (in the above link) to see a really, really short demo showing how you can write stuff showing directions. it's cross-platform. here's something about it -
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7589

there's this too -
http://wolphination.com/linux/2006/06/30/how-to-record-videos-of-your-desktop/

[malformed]

While this might not be exactly what you're asking for but the best transcoder IMO is Mediacoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/ Windows, and Linux under Wine.

Best screen video recording - Windows - CamStudio - http://www.camstudio.org/ The output especially avi needs to be transcoded with xvid to reduce the file size while keeping great quality. For Linux Xvidcap - http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
Well I did a lot of experimenting. Now, I'd like to try to create a flash player...
Mrk

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
Any great ideas for converting .flv to .swf or .avi to .swf?
Mrk

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
All done well.
I now have all the required conversions and formatting. I have even created an embedded flash object ... you'll see soon.... hooah!
Mrk