I use ffmpeg: ffmpeg -I filename.ext -f flv -s qvga -qscale 5 filename.flv I'm more interested in quality than size. (and fortunate my wife is, too %^O ) We upload them to Amazon S3, and host them from there... Chenge the qscale setting for quality/size 1 is best quality, 30 is lowest. HTH, Dennis

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Simon Jolle sjolle Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:58 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

Hi CentOS users

I am running a forum with small video clips (from YouTube and others). I convert those Macromedia Flash videos with:

$ mencoder example.flv -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1000:autoaspect -vf pp=lb -oac mp3lame -lameopts fast:preset=standard -o example.avi

I use mencoder RPM from Dag Wieers

1. Its very generic command line to convert videos. What

would you improve? The size is much bigger than the original FLV :(

2. Is there a real open source format what I should prefer?

Can you say something about its quality?

3. Whats the most painless format for exchanging videos with

Win, Mac and Linux users?

cheers Simon