Is it possible to get ffmpeg to work on Debian with support for amr codec (libopencore-amrnb) ahd h264 encoder (libx264)?

I’ve never used Debian, but on my Ubuntu box I have installed ffmpeg from the repositories (just as it is, without any tweak or hack) and I can easily use it to transcode amr audio to (e.g.) mp3 and to transcode 3gp video to MOV encoded with h264, and to flv. On my machine, I … Read more

Site for learning about video codecs on the web [closed]

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windows applications that serve video from a local disk to h264 flash viewable through the browser on your local network

Are there any windows applications that serve video from a server local disk to h264 flash viewable through the browser on your local network? I’m thinking that on machine1, I’d have a folder with a ton of videos. This program would serve the videos on a website visible at http://machine1/myvids and that it would serve … Read more

Why does video file size drastically increase on import from camera? (iMovie)

My Sony camera has a 60GB hard drive and can store many hours of 1080p video. However, when I import these videos in iMovie (i.e. h.264) in their full 1080p size, they end up consuming something like 550MB per minute of video, which is about 10x more then when that same video was in a … Read more

Is it possible to get ffmpeg to work on Debian with support for amr codec (libopencore-amrnb) ahd h264 encoder (libx264)?

I’ve never used Debian, but on my Ubuntu box I have installed ffmpeg from the repositories (just as it is, without any tweak or hack) and I can easily use it to transcode amr audio to (e.g.) mp3 and to transcode 3gp video to MOV encoded with h264, and to flv. On my machine, I … Read more

How to resolve iTunes crashing with m4v file and QuickTime?

Every time I open an m4v file, iTunes crashes. This is the error it shows: Firma con problemas: Nombre del evento de problema: APPCRASH Nombre de la aplicación: iTunes.exe Versión de la aplicación: 11.0.0.163 Marca de tiempo de la aplicación: 50b71fed Nombre del módulo con errores: QuickTime.qts Versión del módulo con errores: 7.73.80.64 Marca de … Read more

Google Chrome browser. mp4 h264 goes black sporadically when move on timeline (jump to different frame)

Specs: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Xeon E31270 3.40 GHz CPU 16 GB of RAM Chrome Version 27.0.1453.116 m NVIDIA Quadro 2000 1GB Total available graphics memory 8938 MB Dedicated graphics memory 1024 MB Dedicated system memory 0 MB Shared system memory 7914 MB About 10GB available RAM (5GB Free, 5GB cached) The Windows Performance … Read more

Record webcam automated with unknown duration

I need to record (not stream) from my webcam, convert it to H.264 and store it in a mp4-container. With VLC media player I can do this manually with the Open Capture Device menu where I just have to press “convert” and set destination file and video codec. But I need to do this automated, … Read more