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Help on Video Transcoding for Web Distribution - ffmpeg / mplayer


This Wiki is a place to share notes and experience on using various tools for transcoding video for web distribution.
In particular this site is about approaches for manipulating video at the web server, rather than using client side tools.

Open source tools: ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg2theora, VLC Media Player


In particular I've been frustrated by the lack of centralized information on how to use the various source tools to accomplish common "video the web" jobs. The idea for this wiki is to organize a set of "How-tos" around these typical problems. These tools were created originally for playing video on Linux and working with DVD's, so their documentation around transcoding problems is very sparse and confusing.

DirectShow (Windows) Transcoding

For completeness sake, I am gathering help and links on DirectShowTranscoding as well.

Canonical How-To's


As a start, here are the typical problems you face trying to get video up on the web:


Canonical Help

Getting the tools



Other encoding tools


  • On2 Flix Engine and SDK for Flash encoding - this is pretty much the only solution to create Flash 8 files server side
  • TVE SDK - Turbine Video Engine SDK is an affordable alternative to On2's SDK althought it can not generate Flash 8 video
  • Transcoding.org is an ongoing effort to provide a richly featured suite of transcoding tools.
  • MediaCoder - this is an awesome Windows-based app that's a GUI front-end to mencoder. The great thing is you can open a console and see the mencoder command. Great for testing out mencoder settings without remembering its crazy syntax.
  • AcidRip - this is a Gtk2::Perl application for ripping and encoding DVD's. It neatly wraps MPlayer and MEncoder.

Related Sites


ffmpeg home page: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/


mplayer home page: http://www.mplayerhq.hu


Good overview of various video codecs: http://people.csail.mit.edu/tbuehler/video/codecs/


Wikipedia has a ton of good pages:


Scott Persinger's blog: http://videoontheweb.wordpress.com/

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