How to convert various video file formats into FLV (for FlowPlayer)?

Question

Hi,

We need to allow our users to upload video files (which will be in various different formats naturally), and convert them all into FLV so it can be streamed using FlowPlayer (http://flowplayer.org/).

What would be better FFmpeg or mencoder? And what should be the appropriate commands / arguments for the various steps.

I've had a look at:
hxxp://flowplayer.org/tutorials/mencoder.html

and:
hxxp://flowplayer.org/tutorials/ffmpeg.html

But we havent been able to figure out how to make a "generic" conversion without getting into the "trial-and-error" zone. I dont need to encode "into" a certain fixed bitrate/etc, I just want to get it converted into FLV so it can play on FlowPlayer

Answer 1

Have you tried looking at other questions on the site? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1988302/video-convert-to-flv and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/502753/programmatically-convert-a-video-to-flv for instance?