Comments on: Create High Quality Flash Videos in Ubuntu

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:36:04 +0000

seems to be an older howto, but hey, ist still working. thx

By: Sumer Kolcak

Sumer Kolcak — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:27:07 +0000

i can not get this to work either
i am sooooooooo confused
this is the error i get

Error decoding sei message

i am testing it on a .mov file i downloaded from apple.com/trailers

By: Martin Ankerl

Martin Ankerl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:48:49 +0000

Hi Janson! I had a bug in the script, I have forgotten the option -ovc x264. I have updated it, now it should work

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:32:03 +0000

I tried this on an avi and an ogg file and i get errors. Does this only work on particular file types?

/media/USB\ Disk/convert2mp4.rb thine-eyes-ask.ogg 1 50
mencoder “thine-eyes-ask.ogg” -o “thine-eyes-ask_tmp.avi” -x264encopts threads=auto:crf=50:subq=6:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=1:b_pyramid:weight_b -oac faac -faacopts br=192 -channels 2 -srate 48000
MEncoder 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu19+medibuntu1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
success: format: 0 data: 0×0 – 0x17b5dfb4
[Ogg] stream 0: video (Theora v3.2.1), -vid 0
[Ogg] stream 1: audio (Vorbis), -aid 0
Ogg file format detected.
VIDEO: [theo] 720×480 24bpp 29.970 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:18 fourcc:0x6F656874 size:720×480 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334

No video encoder (-ovc) selected. Select one (see -ovc help).

Exiting…
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing thine-eyes-ask_tmp.avi.
File not found: ‘thine-eyes-ask_tmp.avi’
Failed to open thine-eyes-ask_tmp.avi.

Exiting… (End of file)
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing thine-eyes-ask_tmp.avi.
File not found: ‘thine-eyes-ask_tmp.avi’
Failed to open thine-eyes-ask_tmp.avi.

Exiting… (End of file)
mp4creator: can’t open file thine-eyes-ask.aac: No such file or directory
mp4creator: can’t open file thine-eyes-ask.h264: No such file or directory
MP4ERROR: FindTrackIndex: Track id 1 doesn’t exist
mp4creator: couldn’t create hint track, no media samples
MP4ERROR: FindTrackIndex: Track id 2 doesn’t exist
mp4creator: couldn’t create hint track, no media samples

By: Martin Ankerl

Martin Ankerl — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:15:40 +0000

Hi tc!
I have used a Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ5, here is a review.

To mount it on the head I have basically used a bicycle helmet and a rubber band. It looks a bit adventerous, but it is very sturdy. I would like to create a blog entry on how to do this but I need a second camera to take pictures…

To get the video off the camera I just plug it in, it is recognized as an USB disk and you can copy the mpg file. I did not edit the movie at all but just converted it into MP4 as described.

By: tc

tc — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:05:16 +0000

Three questions:

What type of camera is that?

How did you mount it to your head?

What software did you use on Ubuntu to pull the video off of your camera and edit it?

By: Mathias

Mathias — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:31:04 +0000

Thanx for the tutorial, the result looks very good.