[PLUG-TALK] PLUG video complaints choir

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Mon Mar 19 16:13:27 UTC 2007


> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote:
> > Since this is plug-talk, I'm allowed to point out that Flash is only
> > available for x86, leaving ia64, mips, ppc, sparc, x86-64, and a
> > bunch of others literally in the dark.
 
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 10:13:57PM -0700, Paul Mullen wrote:
> Actually, the FFMPEG library handily plays most Flash video (*.flv)
> files, even on PowerPC. I've encountered few FLV files that I can't
> get mplayer to play on my PowerBook. This is not to imply that there
> aren't far more preferable video codecs available...
> 
> What really bugs are the web sites that offer no way to easily
> download video clips. At least Google (usually) makes it easy; and
> there's 'youtube-dl' for YouTube.

With python >= 2.4, youtube-dl will indeed download the Helsinki
Complaint Choir as a .flv file .  I can play it with mplayer and
with vlc, and I can get video but no audio from xine.  This is with
a RHEL4 clone on a 32 bit machine.

My "complaint" is that I would like to convert it to another format
besides flash that is less trouble for others.  What is the best
format and means to do this for this particular video?  I tried 
using  "ffmpeg -i ATXV3DzKv68.flv ATXV3DzKv68.mpg" and got the
following error:

   Error while opening codec for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

Ideas?

Keith

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