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[bzcoder]

csnyder wrote:
> idea what this means in practice... can ffmpeg actually create a Flash
> animation?
I don't know, I've only used ffmpeg for 2 purposes:

1) To translate avi and windows media files for a website
 to flash.  Windows Media Files are a /pain/ to translate because you 
can have a perfectly playable windows media file but it has a bit of 
corruption which results in ffmpeg truncating the file.  What was worse 
was that everything worked fine and then stopped one day and the client 
insisted they didn't do anything differently.  After a week or so of 
investigating, they mentioned that they upgraded their software used to 
create the windows media file which resulted in it generating funky 
stuff at the end. [Hint: if your trying to troubleshoot a problem, the 
first thing to do is upload it to youtube and/or google video.  This at 
least tells you if it is possible to convert the file to flash, as if 
they can't do it, I refuse to spend my time on a fixed price contract 
tracking down every little variable and testing it.]

2) I fiddled with some shell scripts on my mythtv box at home to convert 
tv to flash video format suitable for playing on the wii[so I could 
record to my PC and than watch it over the wireless network on the TV 
using the WII]

In both cases, I was just converting, not creating from scratch.