This tutorial is about transcoding video fom one codec into another using
[url=http://ffmpeg.org/]FFMPEG[/url]
. I got deeper into FFMPEG when I wanted to transcode into FLV (Flash Video) and it works very well. I developed the
[url=http://rivavx.de/?encoder]Riva FLV Encoder[/url]
, a GUI for FFMPEG.

We install the Minimalist GNU for Windows MinGW (Compiler) and MSYS (Minimal SYStem) which is a kind of unix-shell to access the MinGW-commands. Next we download, compile and install Lame, an open-source mp3-codec, with MSYS. Next we install WinCVS and checkout the latest cvs-release of FFMPEG. Finally we compile ffmpeg and I will show a few examples how to work with Flash Video (FLV).

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