[Xerte] AVI > flv

Peter Snowball southman at internode.on.net
Thu Dec 9 12:28:46 GMT 2010


Hi Adam

Thanks very much for your and everyone's efforts.

Have more or less reached the same conclusion that full screen capture 
and flv conversion will not scale to smaller stage size of xerte 
player.  The problem with linking out to an new window using media 
player is that  is that not all target computers have the codec so some 
times it just does not work or there are long delays in "Changing media 
etc".

Would it be too simple to have an xerte 1.5 frame work that just plays a 
single FLV ( or SWF) at maximum stage size but no navigation buttons or 
status bar - just video controller. Just open in a new window from 
Xerte. ie an Xerte media player. The resolution of your conversion is 
almost there.

Peter Snowball
Dept Of Economic Development
Tasmania


On 9/12/2010 1:55 AM, Adam Read wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm a bit late to the party and not fully clued up on what you're 
> trying to do! I've had a go at outputting the test wmv as a FLV via 
> Format Factory.
>
> The result should be pretty similar to the wmv quality wise: 
> http://elearning.net.marjon.ac.uk/tests/ffactory/047_Dragon_Professional_10_1_Outlook 
> .flv 
> <http://elearning.net.marjon.ac.uk/tests/ffactory/047_Dragon_Professional_10_1_Outlook%20.flv> 
>
>
> Ended up as a 28mb FLV, compared the the 7mb original. I've attached a 
> screenshot of the FLV conversion settings I used.
>
> Peter, if you leave the video size as default it should keep the 
> original source dimensions. Then use the bitrate to control the 
> quality -- the higher the better but obviously results in larger 
> filesizes.
>
> The only problem is with 1024 video is it won't fit into Xerte very 
> well -- any reduction after recording will result in a degrade in the 
> quality (especially text).
>
> My suggestion would be either to record a smaller part of the screen 
> or change your desktop resolution to make it appear bigger -- e.g. 640 
> x 480 although again it depends what you've trying to achieve.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Adam
>
> <mailto:aread at marjon.ac.uk>
>
> P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 08 December 2010 13:22
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* RE: [Xerte] AVI > flv
>
> Nope can't get that to convert. Unsure why not, but I get an error 
> from ffmpeg saying MAX_ANALYSE_DURATION reached. I haven't a clue what 
> that means...
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Peter 
> Snowball
> *Sent:* 08 December 2010 12:49
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] AVI > flv
>
> Its about 7 meg - "Test wmv"  at http://www.fredele.net/
>
> I increased output size in format factory settings to 1024 x 768 and 
> got a better flv.  May be I have to match the original screen size as 
> close as posible in the FLV output ?
>
> Peter Snowball
> Dept Of Economic Development
> Tasmania
>
>
> On 8/12/2010 10:58 PM, Julian Tenney wrote:
>
> Can I download the file and try it? I just found an up to date ffmpeg, 
> so it might work with that...
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Peter 
> Snowball
> *Sent:* 08 December 2010 11:05
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] AVI > flv
>
> Thanks Julian
>
> However there was no conversion with my test file. The video codec is 
> Windows Media 9 Screen Video  and the audio codec is WMA 9.2.
> Have attached a text file of the video properties.
>
>
> Peter Snowball
> Dept Of Economic Development
> Tasmania
>
>
> On 8/12/2010 1:09 AM, Julian Tenney wrote:
>
> Pretty simple (I like simple) for now. File -> Convert Media. Browse 
> for an input file. Defaults to output in the same dir with either .flv 
> or .mp3 extension (depending on whether you choose sound or video as 
> input).Hit convert.
>
> Progress bar will tell you when you're done when it stops animating. I 
> can get some info from the native process about progress, but not %: 
> only current time / frame.
>
> The ffmpeg settings are defaults: the command line is this:
>
> args.push('-i'); //input file
>
> args.push(teInput.text);
>
> args.push('-b'); //bitrate
>
> args.push('512000');
>
> args.push('-y'); //overwrites output files
>
> args.push(teOutput.text);
>
> so it's pretty simple, just sets the bitrate for 512k.
>
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/xerte3beta.exe
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Dave Burnett
> *Sent:* 06 December 2010 21:05
> *To:* Xerte list
> *Subject:* RE: [Xerte] AVI > flv
>
>
> Nice conversion.
>
> The flv was 8 Mb and the source avi was 4 Mb
>
> I used the defaults.
> That seem high?
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: maryann at moberg.com <mailto:maryann at moberg.com>
> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:18:47 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Xerte] AVI > flv
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>
> We paid $35 US for MyVideoConverter awhile back.  We haven't actually 
> needed to use it very much beyond our initial crisis, but it's been 
> great.  There's a free version you can test as well which is nice.  
> It's quick, high quality, good defaults, batch process.  Just did an 
> avi to flv test and it did a great job on a 100MB movie in 2 minutes.
>
> http://www.ivideogo.com/
>
> Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP/2003 with DirectX 9.0 or higher.
> Pentium Processor or better, Pentium 4 recommended.
> 128MB RAM or more, 512MB RAM is recommended.
> 20MB Hard disk space for install.
> 5GB of Hard Disk Space for Media Files.
> Windows Media Player 9. 
> <http://www.ivideogo.com/www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx-displaylang=en&categoryid=4>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
> Tried FormatFactory but it won't run on my win2k box: "Not a valid 
> Win32" etc
>
> Let's forget about cost for a second and ask what's the best avi > flv 
> converter you've run across?
>
> I don't mind paying for a decent converter (or paying someone to do it 
> if the output is h.q.).
>
> Same thing for wav > mp3
>
> Dave
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