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Large Volume Format Conversion
I have 60 hrs. of video on DVD which needs to be converted to either H.264 or Flash. I would prefer Flash, but I don’t know of a DVD to Flash converter. I did try a test using Mpeg Streamclip to convert to H.264 and got excellent results. On my dual-core MacPro, it encoded at about 2x realtime. I’m assuming that would speed-up somewhat if I first copied the VideoTS folder to my hard drive, but I don’t know if the time savings would offset the time it takes to copy the folder.
So, the bottom line is that I am looking for the fastest method to get these DVDs to either format, but Flash .flv is preferred. Any ideas?
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[Chris Babbitt] “either H.264 or Flash”
How is this either or?https://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:9:Update:H.264
Are you talking about a different Flash?
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Yes, I understand that Flash Player 9 will play H.264 files, but I would prefer .flv, if there is conversion software that will do it. VIDEO_TS to .flv.
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If you mean Flash 8 that would be On2VP6 which involves a license fee so you won’t find it for free.
Episode and Squeeze can probably handle it (and On2VP6 was optional until they felt enough people expected it that it was included and the price raised $100 which was the cost for the option). -
Craig,
I have the On2 encoder. It doesn’t accept a DVD (VIdeoTS or VOB) as input files. I’m looking for a fast and reliable solution to get the DVDs to Flash.
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[Chris Babbitt] “I have the On2 encoder. It doesn’t accept a DVD (VIdeoTS or VOB) as input files. I’m looking for a fast and reliable solution to get the DVDs to Flash. “
And this is why I mention Episode and Squeeze. Download the trials and test. I think using the VOB might work.
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Thanks Craig. I’ll take a look.
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I checked and neither Episode or Squeeze lists DVD, VIDEO_TS or VOB as input formats.
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I believe Procoder will directly read .vob files and convert to .flv. But you can save a ton of space and retain DVD quality by using H264/mpg4.
H264 is widely recognized as being able to match mpg2 compression quality at half the file size.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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That’s interesting. I thought that Flash files were smaller. The situation is that this material will eventually be streamed, and the company that will be implementing this prefers Flash, because they say that it is more problem-free for streaming large files.
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H.264 will play within the flash wrapper and is much higher quality than On2.
Handbrake is the best at doing what you need:
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