AVI to SWF using FFmpeg

AVI container file with Video Codex: mpeg4 & Audio Codex: mp3)

In Ubuntu, For a quick and dirty way to convert AVI  files to SWF files I use:

Command line (open terminal)

ffmpeg -i input.avi -acodec copy -vcodec flv output.swf

Note:

you might have to add extra options to change parameters as frame rate, bit rate, ....)

Example output on screen:

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0 built on Mar 16 2009 21:16:26, gcc: 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3) Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 30000.00 (30000/1) -> 29.97 (30000/1001) Input #0, avi, from 'input.avi': Duration: 00:00:39.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1192 kb/s Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 520x340, 29.97 fps(r) Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s Output #0, swf, to 'output.swf': Stream #0.0: Video: flv, yuv420p, 520x340, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 29.97 fps(c) Stream #0.1: Audio: 0x0055, 44100 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Stream #0.1 -> #0.1 Press [q] to stop encoding frame= 1190 q=31.0 Lsize=    2132kB time=39.7 bitrate= 439.9kbits/s video:1479kB audio:621kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.568774%

There is also a GUI-version available (cross-platform) @ http://code.google.com/p/winff/