Mobilize your FLV file : how to convert FLV (Flash Video) to 3GP for mobile devices

Waiting for Flash Lite 3 new features that allow developers to load FLV files, in order to use viode in your Flash Lite 2 applications you have to convert them to 3GP format.

I made a post on my blog about "Convert FLV into 3GP for next generation FlashLite 2.0 application".

For a Flash Lite 2 project a client of Comtaste asked us to convert FLV video to 3GP format using a server side batch procedure.
A great free tool that allows you to convert FLV video to 3GP is FFMPEG. A generic syntax for the command line tool is :

ffmpeg [[infile options][`-i' infile]]... {[outfile options] outfile}

So you can create a batch file that execute a syntax like this :

ffmpeg -i /serverFolder/video.flv -s 176x144 -i 3gp_videos/video.3gp

Read the  Tips for creating video for mobile devices from Device Central documentation.

Comments

[Alessandro]

Ciao Marco,

I use this library too and it's available for Linux
Alessandro

[jhm212]

Do the 'Total Video Convert' or FFMPEG solutions you mention apply to VP6 Flash 8 video? I'm thinking NO....
Why anyone is still working with F7 video is beyond me. YouTube's F7 video is pathetic. Anyone serious about 'user experience' should not be using Flash 7 for video!!

[JT]

You'll have to excuse jhm212. He gets very upset when anything might affect his stock in On2 Technologies.

[jhm212]

Hey, that's pretty funny. I am neither upset nor worried about my investments. I asked a question about the above mentioned tools and Flash 8 video....would you care to answer it?
Then, tell me how much you adore the video quality at YouTube?

[Flash Video Player]

Thanks a lot for given this great Article!!!

[Flv Player]

Thank you very much for given this useful post...