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Is there any alternative to FFMPEG to create flv video programmatically?

I need to create flash movies and the FFMPEG hava GPL license problem , I need to create only flv file Is there any alternative ? ...

Which commonly heard softwares are free/trial-based/paid-only?

down vote favorite Hi, Having mostly been in academic setting and having had free access to all the needed softwares (and some piracy on my part), I have even ceased to understand/know that which commonly needed softwares are free/trial-based/paid-only. Rather than having to search for this information for each software individually, ...